[COG] Welcome!

[Stephan Meißl]

Hi Chris, Hi all,

as a brief introduction, I'm Stephan co-founder of EOX [1], a small
software development and consultancy company in Vienna, Austria fully
committed to Open Source Software and Open Standards. We're very
interested in COG and my colleague Fabian has added COG support in
geotiff.js [2] a JavaScript library to parse GeoTIFFs. A first app to
use this library is our COG-Explorer [3] that allows to visualize remote
COGs like the S3 Landsat-8 archive directly in the browser including
re-projection, band selection, or colour correction from 16bit values.

Looking forward to more COG related development,
Stephan


[1] https://eox.at
[2] https://geotiffjs.github.io
[3] https://geotiffjs.github.io/cog-explorer


On 06/05/2018 01:09 AM, Chris Holmes wrote:
> Hi everyone! Thanks for joining this list to discuss cloud
> optimized geotiffs (COGs). We've already got 68 people on the list. I
> don't anticipate it will be a super active list, but I believe there's a
> few things to discuss to evolve COGs a bit. 
> 
> I think I know a number of people on the list, but it'd be great if
> people could introduce themselves and share their interest in COG.
> 
> * I'm Chris (aka 'cholmes'), and I work 3 days a week at Planet, plus
> one day at Radiant.Earth, and both give me time to help advance COG. At
> Planet all our data is COG, and so we're interested in more tools that
> can consume it, and hopefully save everyone money by using COG to stream
> our data and not having to copy and store so much. Radiant has been
> supporting the COG standard, building tools like cog-map
> <http://www.cogeo.org/map/> and tiles.rdnt.io <http://tiles.rdnt.io>.
> Radiant is building a platform for NGO's / developing world, and sees it
> resting on an infrastructure of COG's
> 
> *Using the list*
> 
> Feel free to post any questions, issues in working with COG's, best
> practices in working with the spec, or ideas of how to make COG's more
> useful. From the BoF at foss4g-na
> <https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/cloud-optimized-geotiff-birds-of-a-feather-at-foss4g-na-def26572ae1b> there's a
> few topics to continue discussion on - feel free to kick those off in
> their own thread, or I'll frame them in a bit.
> 
> *Next Steps*
> 
> I believe the next step is to create an area in github for us to work. I
> believe a github 'organization
> <https://blog.github.com/2010-06-29-introducing-organizations/>' will
> serve us best, to be able to group a few different projects. We'll port
> the spec on gdal's
> <https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/CloudOptimizedGeoTIFF> wiki to its own
> repo (cog-spec?), and then I'll move the website repo
> <https://github.com/cholmes/www.cogeo.org>, and I think it would make
> sense to move the validator <https://github.com/rouault/cog_validator>
> in to, as it's where the spec gets real. And perhaps do a repo on
> performance testing, with tools and results. And perhaps we can welcome
> other related tooling. 
> 
> Does anyone have any great ideas for the organization name? cog and
> cogeo are taken. The ideas I had were:
> 
> * cogeotiff
> * co-geotiff
> * cog-repo
> 
> Let me know if there are more ideas, and I'll send out a poll soon to
> decide. And also ping me if you're up to help create + organize the repos.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Chris


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