[gdal-dev] Re: gdalwarp -co COMPRESSION issues

[Matt Wilkie]

> 1) It does not appear to be a bug.  It is the natural behavior of the
> driver when rewriting in place.

It may be the program is doing exactly what it has been instructed to 
do, but it is contrary what users reasonably expect: that asking for 
compressed output will result in a smaller file. However since it does 
not appear to be possible to change the behaviour at present I've added 
a note to http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs/GdalWarp about it.

> Grr.  I said I wasn't going to respond anymore!

I guess there is just no way to keep a good man down :)


matt wilkie
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