Editing GeoTIFF (section)

== History ==
The GeoTIFF format was originally created by Dr. Niles Ritter while he was working at the [[NASA]] [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]].<ref>Ruth, Mike (February 2005).  [http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/faq.html#Who%20owns%20GeoTIFF%20Format? Who owns the GeoTIFF format?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019224933/http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/faq.html |date=2014-10-19 }}. Retrieved on 2008-02-16.</ref> The [[reference implementation]] code was released mostly as [[public domain software]] with some parts under a [[Permissive license|permissive]] [[X license]].<ref>[ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/geotiff/liopebgeotiff/libgeotiff125.zip libgeotiff125.zip]{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} on remotesensing.org in license ''"libgeotiff Licensing - All the source code in this toolkit are either in the public domain, or under an X style license.  In any event it is all considered to be free to use for any purpose (including commercial software).  No credit is required though some of the code requires that the specific source code modules retain their existing copyright statements.  The CSV files, and other tables derived from the EPSG coordinate system database are also free to use.  In particular, no part of this code is "copyleft", nor does it imply any requirement for users to disclose this or their own source code. All components not carrying their own copyright message, but distributed with libgeotiff should be considered to be under the same license as Niles' code."''</ref> On September 14, 2019, the [[Open Geospatial Consortium]] (OGC) published the OGC GeoTIFF standard,<ref>Open Geospatial Consortium, [https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geotiff OGC GeoTIFF Standard]. Retrieved on 2019-11-07.</ref> which defines the Geographic Tag Image File Format (GeoTIFF) by specifying requirements and encoding rules for using the Tag Image File Format (TIFF) for the exchange of georeferenced or geocoded imagery. The OGC GeoTIFF 1.1 standard formalizes the existing community GeoTIFF specification version 1.0 and aligns it with the continuing addition of data to the [[EPSG]] Geodetic Parameter Dataset.