[gdal-dev] Converting ecw to tif for Geoserver

[Andrea Aime]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Paul Meems <bontepaarden at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't see anything about compression.
> Did I loose it along the way? Or is it expected to have such a large sized
> end result.
> Because it is now so large I think I'll get into trouble when I add it to
> Geoserver. I hoped to use the tiff directly and not use Geoserver's pyramid
> plug-in.
>

As said before, GeoServer cannot recognize the GDAL alpha mask, so even if
you manage to load it (it's a BigTIFF, it should
be possible to load it, we tested TIFFs up to 100GB) you'll lose
transparency anyways.

Cheers
Andrea

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