lets talk about SVGs as an image format. You may have heard of them called a vector format. This means that instead of defining a grid of pixels and having about what colour every pixel is, it defines the features of the image. There is a red line from 12,45 to 26,78 The text “hello” is in front ariel, 14pt and blue etc. The advantage of this is you can scale the image with out losing any quality....
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....