[El] BigTiff

[Frank Warmerdam]

Hatzopoulos, Nikolaos wrote:
> How We can add BigTiff support to gdal?
> 
> gdal_merge.py -co bigtiff-yes -of GTiff -o test.tif nax81.tif nax82.tif nax83.tif
> Warning 6: Creation option 'bigtiff-yes' is not formatted with the key=value format
> ERROR 6: A 44610 pixels x 62319 lines x 3 bands Byte image would be larger than 4GB
> but this is the largest size a TIFF can be, and BigTIFF is unavailable.
> Creation failed.
> Creation failed, terminating gdal_merge.

Nikolaos,

BigTIFF support will require libtiff 4 (beta).  I see currently a rather
antique libtiff is being used.   Note that the libtiff4 ABI is different
than libtiff3.

Best regards,
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