rio-cogeo¶

Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) creation and validation plugin for Rasterio.

Documentation: cogeotiff.github.io/rio-cogeo/

Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF¶

This plugin aims to facilitate the creation and validation of Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG or COGEO). While it respects the COG specifications, this plugin also enforces several features:

Internal overviews (User can remove overview with option --overview-level 0)
Internal tiles (default profiles have 512x512 internal tiles)

Important: in GDAL 3.1 a new COG driver has been added (doc, discussion), starting with rio-cogeo version 2.2, --use-cog-driver option was added to create COG using the COG driver.

Install¶

$ pip install -U pip
$ pip install rio-cogeo

Or install from source:

$ pip install -U pip
$ pip install git+https://github.com/cogeotiff/rio-cogeo.git

GDAL Version¶

It is recommended to use GDAL > 2.3.2. Previous versions might not be able to create proper COGs (ref: OSGeo/gdal#754).

More info in cogeotiff/rio-cogeo#55

More¶

Blog post on good and bad COG formats: medium.com/@_VincentS_/do-you-really-want-people-using-your-data-ec94cd94dc3f

Checkout rio-glui or rio-viz rasterio plugins to explore COG locally in your web browser.

Contribution & Development¶

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Changes¶

See CHANGES.md.

License¶

See LICENSE