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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>We have a data set of orthophotos. The specs are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>51,971 images, (1.92 Terabytes total)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>30 cm GSD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Cut in 2km x 2km grid<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>No overlap between images<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are an ESRI shop and we are using version 9.31 on the desktop and the server. We do not have the ESRI Image server extension. To build a tile cache from the orthophotos we need to store the orthophoto data in an ESRI Raster data set. This is proving to be very slow and problematic. We have done this successfully in the past but with an older and smaller dataset (2000 images, 200 GB, 1 m GSD).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can somebody suggest an open source tool that can produce a tile cache that can be consumed by ArcGIS server 9.3.1?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bernie.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>--</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>Bernie Connors, P.Eng</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>Manager – Spatial Data Infrastructure</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'>Land Information Secretariat</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'>Service New Brunswick</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'>Tel: 506-444-2077 Fax: 506-453-3898</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'>45°56'25.21"N, 66°38'53.65"W</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:bernie.connors@snb.ca" title="blocked::mailto:bernie.connors@snb.ca"><span style='color:blue'>bernie.connors@snb.ca</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.snb.ca/geonb/"><span style='color:blue'>www.snb.ca/geonb/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>