[Xastir-dev] radar image suggestion

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Charles R. Twardy wrote:

> Tif is another story entirely. Always zip the tif.

geoTIFF:  Compressing those would cause a large loss in efficiency
for us, as there are optimizations in there that read in only
portions of the file depending on zoom level.  We currently skip
scanlines if we're zoomed out far enough or zoomed in far enough.

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