[gdal-dev] GDAL Raster Formats table

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Fri Jul 4 16:28:29 EDT 2008


Michael Toews wrote:
> As someone who uses GDAL sporadically, I reference the GDAL Raster 
> Formats table http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html . It would be of 
> great convenience for the table to have some additional columns:
> 
>    * Compression type (options should be: lossy, lossless, none)
>    * Supports NoData (options should be: yes, no)
>    * Number of bands (either a single number like 1 or 3, a range, or a
>      known/unknown upper limit)
> 
> Is this too much of a request? I do see that the HTML is hand-edited, so 
> I realize this might take some time to do. Thanks.

Michael,

I'm not really that keen on making this table more complicated.  It is already
poorly maintained, and often out of sync with reality.

Best regards,
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