[gdal-dev] Enabling default compression for COG ?

[Patrick Young]

Another option would be to emit a warning/suggestion when left unset.  An
added benefit would be that folks possibly self discover that they can
control the compression scheme.

P

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 7:53 AM Vincent Sarago <vincent.sarago at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1
> I think it’s reasonable to have a default compression. In rio-cogeo I’ve
> set the default to `DEFLATE` but that’s was a personal preference.
>
> Vincent
>
> > On Sep 30, 2021, at 3:46 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > should we enable a default compression scheme for the COG driver ? I've
> heard people "complaining" about that, or people just not realizing that
> specifying a compression method was something reasonable to do. Likely a
> lossless one to be conservative. ZSTD is probably not reasonable as it's
> too non-standard outside of the GDAL/libtiff world. So the choice would go
> basically between LZW or DEFLATE. LZW has probably the best compatibility
> profile (but the less efficient). I guess that most browser based solutions
> would handle it ? Thoughts ?
> >
> > Even
> >
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