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

[Micha Silver]

John C. Tull wrote:

> 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
>
If I'm not mistaken, LZW is not public domain. Besides, being a lossless 
algorithm, it gives much lower compression rates than the wavelet methods.

Micha
> 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
>> -- 
>> Dr. Agustin Lobo
>> Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC)
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