Is the GeoTIFF community still active?
GeoTIFF standard improvement efforts have been quiet since about early 1997. In early 1998 the original GeoTIFF mailing list stopped working due to a machine failure at JPL, and a new list wasn’t started till the fall of 1998. Dr. Niles Ritter has left JPL, and has less time to put towards GeoTIFF efforts. Mike Ruth has left Spot, and is less active in GeoTIFF efforts. However, in the meantime most geographically aware software produced that could utilize TIFF imagery has added some level of support for GeoTIFF ingest, and/or production. Discussions on mailing lists and between software vendors has resulted in some refinements to interpretations of some GeoTIFF tags. In a sense GeoTIFF has become a large success despite a light hand at the helm. However, the quality of GeoTIFF implementations varies greatly, there are no means to do conformance testing on produced GeoTIFF files. The GeoTIFF mailing list is still active, and is a good place to ask questions about GeoTIFF topics. As well
