[Gdal-dev] Advice on Raster Formats

[Bill Binko]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Andrey Kiselev wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:03:26PM +0200, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> > I *think* you would have to translate your tiff files first to
> > compressed  tiff using the -co option.
> > 
> > COMPRESS=[JPEG/LZW/PACKBITS/DEFLATE/NONE]
> 

I don't have LZW enabled (gives a Unisys patent notice), but on deflate, 
the PREDICTOR=2 saved about 2% over no predictor value, and PREDICTOR=3 
threw an error.

Bill