On 21 May 2014 12:39, Even Rouault <even.roua...@mines-paris.org> wrote: > Le mardi 20 mai 2014 12:48:12, Emmanuel Devys a écrit : >> Thanks Peter, Carl, Even, Jukka et al for this interesting discussion on >> adding Georeferencing to image file standards, and capabilities of GMLJP2 >> 2.0 (and its GMLCOV capabilities for rectified Grid coverages or >> Georeferenceable Grid coverages), GeoJP2 ... >> >> I appreciate this idea and action from Even to use the GeoTIFF Box >> mechanism (as documented in the GeoJP2 as explained below) for other >> formats (than JP2K format) such as native JPEG, PNG ... This is outside >> the scope of the Geo-enabled JP2K (and GMLJP2), but of significant >> interest with PNG or JPG data. > > A fundamental question that has not been much discussed in this thread is : do > people really see interest in capturing georeferencing in popular image > formats like PNG or JPG ? My thinking is that it could be potentially usefull > in a few situations : > * when a WMS server returns a PNG or JPG. > * when generating tile caches for WMTS / TMS.
Having a self-contained raster is surely an interesting thing. It would support creation of lean(er) kind of services. Would/Will it cross the chasm? That is a matter of business strategy :) Best regards, -- Mateusz Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
