[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS raster files: LZW compression?

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Seth Price <seth at planet.com> wrote:
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> Also, it's worth remembering that LZ4 is not intended for file size. It's there because it
> decompresses at least an order of magnitude faster than LZW.

Yes, I am using LZ4 as the default for our data in order to gain speed.
In this SRTM case the size exceeded what we were willing to reserve
for it... I changed back to DEFLATE for now for this dataset.

markusN

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