Add support for Cloud Optimized GeoTiffs (COG)

[Anton_Huizinga]

GeoTiff files can be optimized for the web, and we see this variant becoming popular in the GIS world. Unfortunately Civil 3D does not recognize this TIFF format and refuses to create a Surface from the file.

As a workaround people need to open and save the file in, say, QGIS. It would be great if users can skip this step (assuming they understand why Civil 3D does not accept a valid Tiff file).

[TimYarris]

Thank you for your idea. The development team will review the idea while customers continue to add feedback and vote on it.

[jesus_alhambra]

Buenos días, yo trabajo en un departamento público y somos decenas los que utilizados Autocad (Civil 3D, 3D Map, etc.) y nos ha surgido el mismo problema, lo comenté en su momento (hace varios meses) y no han dado solución, una lástima porque nos podemos buscar otros programas que puedan tener solución ha este problema y por tano perder las licencias.

Un saludo. 

[jchemla]

We often produce geottifs of a few millimeters resolution for a few tens or hundreds of meters of footprint, resulting in sides of 10-100k pixels. These are not manageable in Autocad Map, without using a tiled server in between like WMS. It would be great for Autocad to support the COG format itself - which is simply a tiled + pyramid'ed geotiff. This would make it easy to import massive geotiff raster files to autocad, using the native resolution when possible, and the smoothness of tiled rasters like in qgis. 

[Luis.Lucchini]

Por favor ya va siendo hora de que añadan esta funcionalidad. 

[jesus_alhambra]

A estas alturas no entiendo como todavía no han puesto esta funcionalidad... me está dejando mucho que desear esta empresa... con esto puede provocar migración de usuarios, como por ejemplo en España ya que el Instituto Geográfico Nacional se pueden descargar ortofotos actulizadas este formato Geo Tiff

[jesus_alhambra]

At this point I don't understand why they haven't implemented this functionality yet... this company is leaving me a lot to be desired... with this it can cause migration of users, such as in Spain since the National Geographic Institute can download updated orthophotos this Geo Tiff format

[matt_anderson_pe_hrgreen]

We need to support these gdal formats