Another option would be to emit a warning/suggestion when left unset. An added benefit would be that folks possibly self discover that they can control the compression scheme.
P On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 7:53 AM Vincent Sarago <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > I think it’s reasonable to have a default compression. In rio-cogeo I’ve > set the default to `DEFLATE` but that’s was a personal preference. > > Vincent > > > On Sep 30, 2021, at 3:46 PM, Even Rouault <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > should we enable a default compression scheme for the COG driver ? I've > heard people "complaining" about that, or people just not realizing that > specifying a compression method was something reasonable to do. Likely a > lossless one to be conservative. ZSTD is probably not reasonable as it's > too non-standard outside of the GDAL/libtiff world. So the choice would go > basically between LZW or DEFLATE. LZW has probably the best compatibility > profile (but the less efficient). I guess that most browser based solutions > would handle it ? Thoughts ? > > > > Even > > > > -- > > http://www.spatialys.com > > My software is free, but my time generally not. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gdal-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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