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Dan Smith wrote:
> Wasn't there a suggestion that the TIFF/IT format could be used, as it
> allow tiling of multiple TIFF files? I'm not very familiar either with TIFF/IT
> or tifflib. Presumably this would NOT be a quick fix, as TIFFLIB doesn't
> handle TIFF/IT and neither do most existing TIFF-based applications.
> 
> Is TIFF/IT still alive? I don't hear much about it lately.

Dan,

Sorry, I don't know enough about TIFF/IT to comment.  There are a variety
of schemes for tiling TIFF files to represent larger datasets, all of which
can presumably work fine.  That doesn't mean they are very interoperable
though.

Best regards,

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