[Gdal-dev] GeoTIFF External Overviews

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Tyler Mitchell wrote:

> As a rule of thumb, do applications that support GeoTIFF also support
> overviews?  Is there a rule of thumb?

I doubt there's any rhyme or reason to it.  I work on one
open-source application that supports a very small set of geotiff
formats.  We don't support overviews.  It's not a GIS application,
but a real-time tracking application.  We don't currently see a
great need for overviews.

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