<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 28, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Peder Axensten wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">What is the raster size restrictions in gdal/numpy?</span></blockquote></div><br><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">I have successfully used gdal_merge.py to create a 142 GB .tif file, on a computer with only 3 GB RAM, under Apple Mac OS X 10.6. Greg</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">tiffinfo dcua0002.tif</span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> Image Width: 260000 Image Length: 195000</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> Tile Width: 512 Tile Length: 512</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> Bits/Sample: 8</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> Compression Scheme: None</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> Photometric Interpretation: RGB color</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> Samples/Pixel: 3</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>