Description
With ISIS's update to support GeoTIFF natively, there will likely be an extended period of time where users will try to use TIFF/GeoTIFFs that were not created with the latest needed version. It would be nice if a warning or tip is issued to make sure GDAL binaries are upgraded to 3.12.2+ (or whatever the final minor release is).
It is noted that, map projected GeoTIFFs should work in ISIS v10 correctly. This is more to address TIFF/GeoTIFFs created outside of ISIS v10 or older versions of GDAL which don't have the new "json:ISIS3 metadata". This was added to support applications like cam2map which require SPICE and camera model metadata.
Overview: Newer versions of GDAL and ISIS will embed ISIS3 metadata inside a GeoTiff. This ultimately allows ISIS v10+ to support the TIFF format natively (including TIFF enhancements like compression, cloud streaming, sparse NoDATA blocks, and better interoperability). Updates are briefly described is this ISIS RFC 13 or in GDAL v3.12.0 release notes under GeoTIFF and ISIS3 format sections.
Example Warning
This could be positive warning or tip. Maybe something like.
"This GeoTIFF has not been initialized with version GDAL version 3.12.2+ or ISIS v10+. It is recommended to upgrade GDAL and/or ISIS and recreate this file to allow for native TIFF/GeoTIFF support within ISIS v10+ applications."
Description
With ISIS's update to support GeoTIFF natively, there will likely be an extended period of time where users will try to use TIFF/GeoTIFFs that were not created with the latest needed version. It would be nice if a warning or tip is issued to make sure GDAL binaries are upgraded to 3.12.2+ (or whatever the final minor release is).
It is noted that, map projected GeoTIFFs should work in ISIS v10 correctly. This is more to address TIFF/GeoTIFFs created outside of ISIS v10 or older versions of GDAL which don't have the new "json:ISIS3 metadata". This was added to support applications like cam2map which require SPICE and camera model metadata.
Overview: Newer versions of GDAL and ISIS will embed ISIS3 metadata inside a GeoTiff. This ultimately allows ISIS v10+ to support the TIFF format natively (including TIFF enhancements like compression, cloud streaming, sparse NoDATA blocks, and better interoperability). Updates are briefly described is this ISIS RFC 13 or in GDAL v3.12.0 release notes under GeoTIFF and ISIS3 format sections.
Example Warning
This could be positive warning or tip. Maybe something like.
"This GeoTIFF has not been initialized with version GDAL version 3.12.2+ or ISIS v10+. It is recommended to upgrade GDAL and/or ISIS and recreate this file to allow for native TIFF/GeoTIFF support within ISIS v10+ applications."