[gdal-dev] Interest for a driver to read Phase One IIQ images?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

Esri has developed a GDAL driver to be able to read for the Phase One 
IIQ format (that they use in ArcGIS). Phase One 
(https://www.phaseone.com/) makes aerial, UAV, and space cameras.

The PhaseOne file format (IIQ) is TIFF, storing a full-resolution raw 
(compressed Bayer) image in a custom tag. The GDAL driver needs to be 
built against a proprietary SDK (ImageSDK) for decoding such images: 
https://developer.phaseone.com/sdk/3.1/docs/appendices/download.html . 
The source code of the IIQ GDAL driver itself isn't that large (700 lines).

Is there an interest in having that driver in the OSGeo/GDAL repository? 
Due to the proprietary nature of the PhaseOne SDK, the IIQ driver 
wouldn't be available in the common packaging systems people usually get 
GDAL from, and would have to be built as a plugin from source (or doing 
a full build with it enabled). Otherwise Esri expressed the intent of 
publicly releasing the source code of the driver in a separate repository?

Even

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