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vs-geotiff

vs-geotiff is a Visual Studio Code extension for viewing TIFF and GeoTIFF data natively. This extension is primarily intended for displaying floating point data.

This extension was written because existing extensions didn't support floating point TIFF data and were unmaintained.

Features

  • Image information in statusbar

Image Info in Statusbar

  • Renders TIFF and GeoTIFF files as an editor, with correct alpha clipping of NaN and GDAL_NODATA values.
  • Supports Float32, Float64 and Stripped / Tiled Layout TIFF Files
  • Zoom and pan controls, with CTRL+Scroll and mouse dragging

Clipped TIFF Render

  • Supports various shading schemes for different applications

Shading Schemes

Shading Grayscale Shading Turbo Shading Viridis Shading Cividis Shading Cool Shading HSV Shading Terrain Shading Rainbow

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

  • vs-geotiff.defaultShading: Default shading scheme setting

Installing

This extension is currently not available on the marketplace. You can install it using the .vsix file found in the current release in this repository.

Download the .vsix file from the releases section and run (on the correct filename):

code --install-extension /path/to/vs-geotiff-X.X.X.vsix

Known Issues

vs-geotiff currently doesn't render RGB TIFF data correctly. Pull requests are welcome.

Some tiff files can take longer to load, due to the javascript native TIFF loading library.

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial Release