[sis-site] 03/03: Said that SIS can use "http ranges" when reading TIFF files.

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commit 19ba539d396532e2b7b99ee0f68482ab5abb067b
Author: Martin Desruisseaux <ma...@geomatys.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 26 23:30:24 2022 +0100

    Said that SIS can use "http ranges" when reading TIFF files.
---
 content/_index.md                      | 2 +-
 content/formats.md                     | 8 +++++++-
 static/templates/release-announce.html | 1 +
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md
index 92cca97e..d9f7f717 100644
--- a/content/_index.md
+++ b/content/_index.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The API and the data encodings follow [international standards](standards.html)
 
 * Raster formats:
   * Read [NetCDF-3 Classic and 64-bit Offset Format][netCDF].
-  * Read [GeoTIFF][geoTIFF] including BigTIFF extension.
+  * Read [GeoTIFF][geoTIFF] including BigTIFF extension and Cloud Optimized convention.
   * Read Landsat (groups of GeoTIFF files).
   * Read ESRI BIL/BIP/BSQ and read/write ERSI ASCII Grid.
   * Read/write World Files with any image format supported by Image I/O.
diff --git a/content/formats.md b/content/formats.md
index ac1cafbd..cf93d086 100644
--- a/content/formats.md
+++ b/content/formats.md
@@ -103,7 +103,13 @@ See the [SIS developer guide](book/en/developer-guide.html#DataAccess) for more
 
 # Accessing data on the cloud
 
-Data files can be located on Amazon S3 storage service.
+Most above-cited formats can be read from an HTTP connection.
+If the server supports HTTP ranges and if the data file is tiled
+(such as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF),
+Apache SIS will try to minimize the amount of bytes downloaded.
+HTTP connections are supported out of the box and do not need additional dependencies.
+
+Data files can also be located on Amazon S3 storage service.
 For accessing those data, add the following dependency to the Maven project:
 
 {{< highlight xml >}}
diff --git a/static/templates/release-announce.html b/static/templates/release-announce.html
index 84b6aa56..ce97c8c5 100644
--- a/static/templates/release-announce.html
+++ b/static/templates/release-announce.html
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
     <ul>
       <li>Read netCDF-3, GeoTIFF (including BigTIFF) and Moving Feature CSV data formats</li>
       <li>Read/write GPX, ASCII Grid, World File, ISO 19115-3 metadata and legacy ISO 19139 compliant XML documents</li>
+      <li>Leverage Cloud Optimized formats (GeoTIFF) for smaller downloads from HTTP and Amazon S3 storage service</li>
       <li>Referencing by coordinates (ISO 19111) or by identifiers (ISO 19112)<ul>
         <li>Well Known Text (WKT) version 1 and 2 (ISO 19162)</li>
         <li>Geographic Markup Language (GML) version 3.2 (ISO 19136)</li>