[Xastir-dev] radar image suggestion

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 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.

I use tiff zip deflation, it's a little painful.