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DavidD

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Both the MBTiles and the Geopackage standard supports WEBP for the embedded image format and Metashape already includes the WEBP driver (for importing images).
Being able to export MBTiles/Geopackages with WEBP compression brings the added benefit of both having an alpha layer (like in PNG) and better compression compared to JPG.

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Re: Export Orthomosaic with WEBP compression in Mbtiles or Geopackages
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2021, 05:52:44 PM »
Same for GeoTiff export.
It seems like the GeoTiff standard also includes webp encoding now.
https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/gtiff.html

That would massively reduce the data size for many of your users!