TIFF test data

A public collection of TIFF files covering a wide range of compressions, tiling schemes, data types, and internal layouts. The files are useful for testing any TIFF reading or parsing library and are maintained as part of the virtual-tiff project.

Last updated: 2026-02-25

Sources and licenses

GDAL autotest (gdal/)

501 files extracted from the GDAL autotest directory.

• Source: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal
• License: MIT/X — see GDAL LICENSE.TXT
• Copyright: Frank Warmerdam, Even Rouault, and contributors

External files (github/)

Files downloaded from third-party sources for testing a variety of TIFF encodings.

geotiff-test-data (geotiff-test-data/)

20 files from the geotiff-test-data repository.

• Source: https://github.com/developmentseed/geotiff-test-data
• License: MIT (synthetic fixtures); see individual README files in real_data/ subdirectories for real-world data licenses
• Copyright: Development Seed and contributors

Usage

These files are publicly hosted and can be used by any project. To download them with the virtual-tiff helper script:

Disclaimer

These files are redistributed solely for automated testing. Refer to each source for authoritative license terms.