Just heard that libTiff which is used in GDAL for GeoTiff support has found sponsors to implement BigTiff support. This will mean an end to the 4Gig limitation of GeoTiffs. These changes to libTiff will filter down to GDAL and a number of Open Source Geospatial packages like Mapserver. The detailed implementation plan can be found here.
libTiff to support BigTiff by July 2007
Just heard that libTiff which is used in GDAL for GeoTiff support has found sponsors to implement BigTiff support. This will mean an end to the 4Gig limitation of GeoTiffs. These changes to libTiff will filter down to GDAL and a number of Open Source Geospatial packages like Mapserver. The detailed implementation plan can be found here.