[gdal-dev] MBTiles from gdal2tiles vs. from gdal_translate

[Rahkonen Jukka (MML)]

Hi,

In the "Participating on gdal2tiles" thread Mark Johnson wrote:

"You might also consider incorporating the mbtiles implementation of a fork
of gdal2tiles that can be found here:
https://github.com/mj10777/gdal2mbtiles
Here the goal was to also offer mbtiles as the output-format
- instead of a tiles-directory"

I would like to know what advantage/difference there is with saving gdal2tiles output into MBtiles format vs. using gdal_translate with MBTiles driver http://www.gdal.org/frmt_mbtiles.html

-Jukka Rahkonen-