example raster compression using Vortex

[a10y]

Just an experiment for now. Idea being, why not store raster data in Vortex.

I've run some local benchmarks extracting crops out of a local GeoTIFF.

Vortex wins by a wide margin, but it's kind of cheating because

• The raster data doesn't get compressed at all (even with Compact compressor)
• TIFF access is dominated by the DEFLATE overhead

Next steps

• Find compressor scheme that works for raster tiles, which are List<u8>
• Benchmark E2E inference pipeline VS rasterio + torch