[gdal-dev] GDAL2Tiles

[Gajera Tejas]

Pasta,

I have used gdalwarp command line utility to warp large georaster
images and it worked well and create a 30GB tiff image.

Thanks,
Tejas Gajera


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Pasta Bolognese wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tejas ,
>>
>> where did you get that 30GB Tiff file from ? I tough that the maximum
>> size for a Tiff was 4GB...
>
> Pasta,
>
> This was presumably a GeoBigTIFF.  There was a project in the last few
> years to extend the TIFF format to support 64bit addressing and the
> resulting format variant is called BigTIFF.  It is supported by
> libtiff 4.x (still in beta really), and GDAL 1.7 and on.
>
> In brief, GDAL transparently supports traditional 4GB limited TIFF
> and BigTIFF which supports much larger file sizes.
>
> Best regards,
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