[general]
name=GeoKlein Raster Optimiser
qgisMinimumVersion=3.34
# Do not remove: with no qgisMaximumVersion set, QGIS infers <major>.99 from
# qgisMinimumVersion, so 3.34 alone becomes an effective cap of "3.34 - 3.99"
# and QGIS 4.2 reports this plugin as incompatible. Confirmed on a clean 4.2
# profile install. Raise this only when a real incompatibility with a newer
# QGIS major version is found, not preemptively.
qgisMaximumVersion=4.99
# Deliberately near-identical to the GitHub repository description, not
# identical: that one adds "A QGIS Processing plugin." as a second
# sentence, which is redundant here since the Plugin Manager listing is
# already a QGIS plugin context. Keep the first sentence in sync with
# GitHub; the trailing sentence is GitHub-only on purpose.
description=Converts slow, unoptimised orthomosaics, elevation and multispectral rasters into fast-panning Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs).
version=1.0.0
author=GeoKlein Ltd
email=mail@geoklein.com
about=Large orthomosaics and elevation rasters from drone photogrammetry or LiDAR are technically correct but practically unusable: no tiling, no pyramids, often no compression, so QGIS or QField crawl trying to pan around them. GeoKlein Raster Optimiser detects what a raster actually is and applies the correct tiling, pyramid and compression settings automatically, with no GDAL flags to memorise: 8-bit RGB imagery gets a real choice between lossless and lossy, and everything else it trusts (Float32 elevation, 16-bit imagery, multispectral) is processed losslessly. It refuses cleanly, with a clear reason, on classified/categorical rasters rather than risk silently corrupting them. A file that is already a valid Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF at the target compression is left as it is; one that is only part-way there, tiled and pyramided but not a COG, is rebuilt.
icon=icons/icon_64.png
tracker=https://github.com/GeoKlein-Ltd/raster-optimiser/issues
repository=https://github.com/GeoKlein-Ltd/raster-optimiser
hasProcessingProvider=yes
tags=raster,orthomosaic,ortho,optimise,optimize,optimiser,optimizer,slow,slow raster,large,large file,reduce file size,shrink,pyramids,overviews,compress,compression,tiling,tiled,tiles,geotiff,cog,cloud optimised geotiff,cloud optimized geotiff,jpeg,zstd,performance,speed,speed up,basemap,drone,photogrammetry,lidar,dsm,dtm,chm,elevation,multispectral,16-bit,qfield
category=Raster
experimental=False
deprecated=False
homepage=https://github.com/GeoKlein-Ltd/raster-optimiser
