[Gdal-dev] Re: New phyton utility

[WolfgangZ]

Christian Mueller schrieb:
> Hi, I am new to the gdal-dev list and have some questions.
> 
> For my project I had to tile 4 different maps of Austria and to build tiled 
> overviews. I tried to handle this with the gdal utilities but I had very long 
> runtimes. 
> 
> Inspired from gdal_mergy.py I developped a counterpart called gdal_tile.py
> 
> This utility has the following features
> 
> tile an image (each tile in its own file)
> retile a tiled image 
> create tiled overviews (building a pyramid)
> creating shape files for all the generated tiles for providing the basic for 
> fast access
> reproject the new  tiles
> 
> Searching the internet shows me that I am not the only guy having this 
> problem, so I would like to contribute this python module.
> 
> What are the next steps
> 
> mcr

Hi Christian,

do you know the gdal2tiles project? It seems to provide similar 
functionality, but perhaps with different targeted use.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GDAL2Tiles_SoC_2007

regards
Wolfgang