[Qgis-user] Compressed rasters: public domain format?

[John C. Tull]

Adobe considers tiff to be a public domain format:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/tiff/index.html

They can be compressed easily enough using lzw compression algorithms.  
You can compress images with:
gdal_translate -co compress=lzw infile outfile

Regards,
John

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On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote:

> Is there any public domain format
> for compressed rasters, something equivalent
> to Mrsid or ecw, that can be read by QGIS through
> gdal?
>
> Thanks
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> Dr. Agustin Lobo
> Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC)
> LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n
> 08028 Barcelona
> Spain
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> Fax. 34 934110012
> email: Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es
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