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://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff : Primary GeoTIFF web site (this page).
• ​GeoTIFF-JAI and ​Extensible-TIFF-JAI: Niles Ritters projects for a Java GeoTIFF API.<p>
• ​ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/geotiff/ : Current archive of GeoTIFF spec, EPSG/POSC tables, and libgeotiff source code. Mirrored at ​http://geotiff.maptools.org/dl
• ​ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/geotiff/samples : Sample GeoTIFF files.
• ​GeoTIFF FAQ written by Mike Ruth.
• Unofficial ​Catalog of Projections and their parameters.

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 1.2.5 and is available from ​ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.2.5.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 .
• <a href="listgeo.html">listgeo</a> - utility program (distributed with libgeotiff) for dumping the metadata of a GeoTIFF file.
• <a href="geotifcp.html">geotifcp</a> - utility program (distributed with libgeotiff) for applying metadata to a TIFF file, making it a GeoTIFF file.