cogs

COGs, Cloud Optimized GeoTiffs, not the little things in clocks and gearboxes. Why do we need yet another data format? What is the point? Well dear #geospatial people. Lets dive in. First of all, lets quickly go over what a GeoTiff is. A tiff file is a type of image. Really old format designed for fax machines, but it has an advantage of not requiring only red, green, blue or alpha bands like a lot of other image formats do so you can happily have a 12 band sentinel 2 image as a single tiff....