TIF or ECW: which is faster?

[Howard Butler]

Chris Hodgson of Refractions had a great presentation at MUM3 about 
serving large scale raster using compressed and uncompressed data. 
The short answer is if you've got the space, TIF is going to be 
faster.

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/present/session2/hodgsonppt/view

Howard

At 11:36 AM +0100 1/12/06, Luca Manganelli wrote:
>Hi, I want to know which of TIF or ECW is faster.
>
>--
>"An algorithm must be seen to be believed."
>    -- Donald Knuth, in "Fundamental Algorithms"
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