“Why do there have to be so many?“ a friend asked me recently.
All she wanted to do was save an image (simple, right?) but she faced a bewildering array of possible file formats: .png, .jpg, .gif, .tiff, .tga, and on and on.
How’s anyone who’s not a file format expert meant to choose?
Here’s my account of what happens when file formats breed: who benefits, who bears the costs, and why it happens.
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Pei-Yuan Wei created a version of the ViolaWWW web browser for X terminals in the year 1990.
I use elevation data from the US Geological Survey (USGS) to carve three-dimensional mountain maps out of wood.
Recently, the USGS ditched the GeoTIFF format in favour of Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF.
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I release Tangled Web as a video too! Watch here.
The full article is here.
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