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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 9:36 AM
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Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats
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On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 10:45 AM
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Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats
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MPG wrote: Tiling essentially means you can take a large file and
compress pieces of it independently
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:45:04AM -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
MPG wrote: Tiling essentially means you can take a large file and
compress pieces of it independently. This avoids having to deal with
the large memory footprint issues, but it can also lead to seam-line
artifacts under certain
So hung up on wavelets, we are.
Internally tiled TIFF with JPEG compression and similarly formatted
internal overviews can achieve 10:1 compression rates without
noticeable image quality reductions, and as an added bonus can be
decompressed a heck of a lot faster than wavelet-based formats. The
