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Re: Adding scale, offset, units metadata to geotiff

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GeoTIFF alraady includes the option for scale and offset in the "z-direction". But most client tools (including ArcGIS) ignore that tag. 
It isn't clear why this information was added to the private GDAL tag.

-Rob


John Caron wrote:


FYI:

Martin Daly and I are discussing adding this tag to the thredds server
geotiffs:

  http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/tifftags/gdal_metadata.html

this would allow us to put out 8-bit geotiffs, but clients could convert
back to floats, using a scale and offset.
We can specify the units also!!

Any comments on this idea are welcome.


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