[gdal-dev] Does it hurt to *always* use BIGTIFF when using gdal_translate

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Devs,

In QGIS we have a GUI for gdal_translate, the "Georeferencer".

It was reported that when Georeferencing huge Tiffs (user was talking about 8GB), that QGIS ended up with a broken 3.99GB Tiff, see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/47362

One of the 'easy' solutions (on QGIS side) would be to *always* add the BIGTIFF=yes option.

Question to you: would that hurt anybody? Is creating a BIGTIFF maybe not preferable because of technical or user limitations?

Thanks for any pointers, or feel free to add it to the issue above.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde