rooot viewer

GeoTIFF viewer

View GeoTIFF files (.tif, .tiff, .cog, .geotiff) on a 3D map in your browser. The standard georeferenced raster format — drone orthoimagery, satellite scenes, and DEMs. No account, no install, no upload until you decide to convert or hand off to the rooot.it route planner.

Open the viewer → or jump straight to a conversion:

About GeoTIFF

GeoTIFF embeds geographic metadata (CRS, transform, ground-control points) inside a TIFF image. Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) is the same format laid out so cloud clients can fetch overviews via HTTP range requests. Drone pilots, satellite-data publishers (Sentinel, Landsat, Maxar), and DEM distributors (USGS 3DEP, Copernicus) all ship GeoTIFF.

Typical producers: QGIS, GDAL, ArcGIS, Pix4D, OpenDroneMap, Sentinel Hub.
Typical consumers: QGIS, rasterio, rio-tiler, TiTiler, ArcGIS, GeoServer.

How to view a GeoTIFF file

  1. Open the viewer.
  2. Drag your GeoTIFF file (.tif, .tiff, .cog, .geotiff) onto the page, or click the + in the Places panel.
  3. The file renders on a 3D MapLibre globe. Use the right-hand panel to toggle background layers (borders, labels, roads, buildings, transportation, places, terrain).
  4. Click features for details, or use the bottom toolbar to convert to another format.

GeoTIFF viewer FAQ

Can I view a GeoTIFF online without QGIS or ArcGIS?

Yes. Drop the .tif on rooot viewer — it reprojects to EPSG:4326, scales to a 2048-pixel max edge, and renders as an image overlay on the 3D MapLibre globe. Bounds, size, band count, and dtype show in the Places tree.

Does this work with Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG)?

Yes — COG is just GeoTIFF with internal tiling and overviews. rooot viewer reads either flavour. For multi-gigabyte COGs hosted remotely, the better workflow is point-in-place tile servers like TiTiler; the in-browser viewer is sized for files under the 50 MB upload cap.

What about 16-bit Sentinel-2 or 32-bit DEM rasters?

16/32-bit data is auto-scaled to 8-bit for display via gdal_translate `-scale`. Geometry and bounds are preserved exactly; only the visualisation is downcast.

Can I convert GeoTIFF to GeoJSON or Shapefile?

Not directly — that is a vectorisation operation, not a format conversion. Use QGIS's Polygonize or `gdal_polygonize.py` for that. rooot viewer is a viewer for GeoTIFF, not a vectoriser.

Is rooot viewer free?

Yes. No account required. There are no per-conversion or per-view charges.

Does rooot viewer upload my files?

Files are parsed server-side for rendering but are not persisted unless you click Convert or Open in roooute. Persisted files are deleted within 24 hours.

Privacy

Files dropped on the main viewer are parsed server-side for rendering but are not persisted. Persistence happens only when you click Convert or Open in roooute; persisted files are deleted within 24 hours. Direct conversions through the per-format converter pages do not persist anything at all.