Navigating the World of Geospatial Standards
The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
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Geotiff - The Boringest Standard of All
The most boring standard of all in here is geotiff. Geotiff, I did not see that coming. It's a pretty simple concept. You have a tiff image and you want to make sure that it sits in the right place on the earth. And so you put a little bit of a geo wrapper around it. That's an exceptionally boring problem to solve. But I would argue it's maybe one of the more important problems that the community solved ever. To be able to describe that in a fashion that anytime you get a geotiff, you know exactly where it sits on the earth,. The concept may be pretty boring, the standard structure. It's not exactly
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