GeoTIFF

GeoTIFF represents an effort by over 160 different remote sensing, GIS, cartographic, and surveying related companies and organizations to establish a ​TIFF based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery.

Information and Support

• ​GeoTIFF Revision 1.0 Specification: This is the official release version of the GeoTIFF spec.
• http://geotiff.osgeo.org/ : Primary GeoTIFF web site (this page).
• ​GeoTIFF-JAI and ​Extensible-TIFF-JAI: Niles Ritters projects for a Java GeoTIFF API.
• ​ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/geotiff/ : Current archive of GeoTIFF spec, EPSG/POSC tables, and libgeotiff source code. Mirrored at ​http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/dl
• ​ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/geotiff/samples : Sample GeoTIFF files.
• ​GeoTIFF FAQ written by Mike Ruth.
• Unofficial ​Catalog of Projections and their parameters.
• VerticalCS - guidance on vertical coordinate systems.
• TOWGS84GeoKey - TOWGS84 datum shift geokey proposal

libgeotiff

Libgeotiff is an open source library normally hosted on top of ​libtiff for reading, and writing GeoTIFF information tags. The libgeotiff library is a sub-project of the ​MetaCRS project. Please contact warmerdam@… for more information, or to get involved.

• ​Libgeotiff API: Partial documentation.
• ​libgeotiff SVN repository is ​https://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/geotiff/trunk/libgeotiff
• The most recent libgeotiff release is version 1.4.0 and is available from ​http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.4.0.tar.gz or the corresponding ​zip.
• The released libgeotiff source code and various other items are available in the ​download.osgeo.org download directories.
• A contributed win32 gui for listgeo is available at ​ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/listgeo_GUI.zip .
• ​listgeo - utility program (distributed with libgeotiff) for dumping the metadata of a GeoTIFF file.
• ​geotifcp - utility program (distributed with libgeotiff) for applying metadata to a TIFF file, making it a GeoTIFF file.
• ​EPSG CSV Refresh Notes

GeoTIFF Mailing List

A mailing list is currently active to discuss the on-going development of this standard, and the libgeotiff support library. Subscribe and unsubscribe ​on the web. Mail can be sent to geotiff@…. Online ​threaded archives are available for viewing on the web.

The GeoTIFF mailing list is also available by NNTP at ​news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.geotiff.

Comments? e-mail warmerdam@… (Frank Warmerdam)

Bug Tracking

Tickets can be filed for libgeotiff, the geotiff web pages or problems with the specification.

• Submit a new bug report (you need to ​login with an ​OSGeo Userid)
• List Open Tickets

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