[gdal-dev] Show isBigTIFF in image metadata

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Thu Nov 2 14:48:59 PDT 2023


Jukka,
>
>
> Does it feel reasonable? I know that overviews may be standard TIFFs 
> while the main image is BigTIFF but maybe the information from the 
> header would be enough. Or have I missed some existing tool? I thought 
> that tiffinfo at least would report TIFF/BigTIFF but it doesn’t.
>
tiffdump does:

$ tiffdump byte.tif
byte.tif:
Magic: 0x4949 <little-endian> Version: 0x2a <ClassicTIFF>

vs

$ tiffdump bigtiff.tif
bigtiff.tif:
Magic: 0x4949 <little-endian> Version: 0x2b <BigTIFF>

Even

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