[Geotiff] Orthophoto in Fathoms?

[Chris 'Xenon' Hanson]

Paul Beaty wrote:
> I cannot re-create this error in the current version of IMAGINE (9.1).
> The TIFF data created in the error example Chris documents below was 
> using an olde software. Note the date of the IMAGINE information states 
> "Copyright 1991 - 2001 by ERDAS, Inc." I vaguely remember a problem with 
> Fathoms being some kind of default in the TIFF creation in about IMAGINE 
> 8.5, and a fix taking care of the problem before 8.6 was released.

   Ok, thanks for getting back with that info, Paul. It sounds like the user has an old 
version of IMAGINE and should look and see if they can update it to correct the GeoTIFF 
units problem.

> At any rate, the error does not exist today. A file created with IMAGINE 
> 9.1 will state: "Copyright 1991 - 2006 by Leica Geosystems Geospatial 
> Imaging, LLC."
> As for ESRI, the old versions only read the TIFF World File and not the 
> GeoTIFF tags. I believe AV 3.3 was the first COT software ESRI made that 
> supported GeoTIFF. (Please correct me where needed folks.)
> Paul

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