Heatmap module uses DOS 8.3-compatible file extensions for GeoTIFF

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Author Name: Aren Cambre (Aren Cambre)
Original Redmine Issue: 8109
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:c++_plugins

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When creating a new GeoTIFF heatmap, the Heatmap module uses a .tif extension. Please use .tiff. .tif is a holdover from the DOS 8.3 filename days.

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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The default file extension for a format is taken from the GDAL metadata for that format. Unfortunately, for GeoTiff GDAL's extension is "tif" (see line 9943 in frmts/gtiff/geotiff.cpp in the GDAL source). Can you please file this on GDAL's tracker (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/report), and report the response back here?

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• resolution was changed from to upstream
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Aren Cambre (Aren Cambre)

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Done: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5124. The line number was a little different in trunk.

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Author Name: Aren Cambre (Aren Cambre)

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I got rejected: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5124

:-)