As a side note, I’m sure this has come up before, but I couldn’t find a
search engine to for the entire e-mail archives. Am I just missing it?
Mail archive is nice and speedy, not sure of it's reach:
http://www.mail-archive.com/gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org/maillist.html
Nabble goes back to 2005-
I'm sure this subject has come up before, but these terrain files get quite
large and in some cases it would be nice to be able to compress them and read
them on the fly, such as, gzipped files. Is there a standard accepted method
to uncompress and read files on the fly. I guess something li