TIF or ECW: which is faster?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/12/06, Howard Butler <hobu at iastate.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Luca,

Note that some of Chris' problems were specific to the GDAL
implementation of the file formats at that time.  But nevertheless,
as Howard suggests, for MapServer purposes, if you can spare
the space a properly tiled TIFF with overviews will give better
render speed than the various wavelet compressed formats.

Best regards,
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