[Gdal-dev] GeoTIFF LZW compression?

[Thom DeCarlo]

Andrey Kiselev wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 07:06:46PM -0400, Thom DeCarlo wrote:
> > Has LZW compression been implemented for GeoTIFF output in gdal yet?
> > Now that all of the patents have expired (I think...) there shouldn't
> > be any other restrictions, right?
> 
> LZW code has been commited in the upstream libtiff sources and will be
> propagated to the GDAL soon. Meanwhile you can grab the libtiff library
> from the its CVS and use it instead of internal version.
> 
> 						Andrey

I cannot use CVS here at work. I found a libtiff3.7.0alpha.zip on the
remotesensing.org ftp site, but I anything clearly identified as a CVS
tarball. Does that 3.7.0.alpha version include the LZW compression?

Thanks,
Thom