How to use gdal_rasterize to create a LZW compressed Tiff

Question

I want to use gdal_rasterize to generate a TIFF from a .shp shapefile. Usually the result is big, so I want to compress it using the LZW compress option.

I tried to do so with the command

gdal_rasterize.exe -burn 255 -burn 255 -burn 0 -burn 255 -ot Byte -tr 0.0332147 0.0332147 shp.shp shp0.tif --config COMPRESS LZW

but it seems the --config COMPRESS LZW option doesn't have any effect. (The result is exactly the same size as without the option.)

Maybe I have some misunderstanding of how to use this option.

Answer 1

You should add an = symbol between the option and the value. Without your data i cant test your specific example, but for me this fails:

gdal_translate --config COMPRESS LZW infile.tif outfile.tif

and this works fine:

gdal_translate --config COMPRESS=LZW infile.tif outfile.tif

You can also write the --config as -co, and wrapping it with quotes also works, which is how i usually do it.

gdal_translate -co "COMPRESS=LZW" infile.tif outfile.tif