[gdal-dev] Erdas Imagine .img vs. GeoTIFF

[Even Rouault]

Selon Stefan Ziegler <stefan.ziegler.de at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> we have some Worldview 3 files in Erdas Imagine format. Are there any
> advantages over GeoTIFF in daily business (or general)? Of course it
> depends what daily business means... e.g. using derived products(RGB or
> false color images) in a desktop gis application or in a wms.

Stefan,

.img has pretty much feature parity with GeoTIFF (tiling, overviews), except
perhaps regarding compression schemes where .img only supports RLE.

Even

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