Ticket #2632 (closed enhancement: fixed)
GeoTIFF writer needs sparse file option
| Reported by: | arb | Owned by: | warmerdam |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | 1.6.0 |
| Component: | GDAL_Raster | Version: | svn-trunk |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | gtiff libtiff |
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Description
The GeoTIFF writer can support the writing of sparse files (i.e. it doesn't write the blocks which contain no data). This is great except that the resulting files are not widely accepted by other TIFF readers. Suggestions:
1) add an option to turn on/off the writing of sparse files (probably implemented by pushing out zeroed blocks for all missing blocks when a file is closed if sparseness not desired)
2) consider making non-sparse files the default
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