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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Paul,<br>
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      Doing the math on your TIFF air photo, I get:<br>
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      40 sq mi X (63360 inches per mi  / 6 inches per pixel )**2 =
      4,460,5440,000 pixels<br>
          and so:<br>
      4,460,5440,000 pixels X 3 bytes per pixel = 12.46 Gbytes<br>
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      So 800 sq mi would be 250 Gbytes<br>
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      After tiling, I expect it would be 250 to 500 Gbytes.  You could
      try gdal2tiles.py on a subset of the air photo mosaic to get a
      better idea...<br>
      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Best Regards,
Brent Fraser</pre>
      On 1/29/2013 10:27 AM, Paul Wickman wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Yes, bytes.  Zowie...   I have a TIFF of an air
        photo for one of our other municipalities (also 6-inch
        resolution), which is 20 GB (uncompress).  That coverage is only
        ~40 square miles.  So, for a single ~800 square mile county also
        at 6-inch resolution I'd potentially be looking at 400 GB for
        the uncompressed source or...  somewhere on the order of ~800 GB
        tiled?  Does that sound right?
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        <div style="">Anybody from MnGeo on this list with any input?</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Brent
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              <div>Do you mean how many bytes?<br>
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                Looking at my Landsat tile pyramids (levels 4 to 12),
                they're about the same number of bytes (hmm, I expected
                them to be double...)<br>
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                But my source images:<br>
                    - no compression on existing files (tiffs, e.g not
                jpeg)<br>
                    - 3 band (color) imagery<br>
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                The resulting tiles:<br>
                    - compressed PNGs<br>
                    - four bands (one alpha channel for transparency)<br>
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                So  my guess is somewhere between "same size" to "double
                the number of bytes" (unless the source imagery is
                compressed, then it will be 5 to 10 times larger)<br>
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                <pre cols="72">Best Regards,
Brent Fraser</pre>
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                  <div class="h5"> On 1/28/2013 5:53 PM, Paul Wickman
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                    <div dir="ltr">Greetings,
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                      <div>I know this type of question goes around
                        often in various flavors.  Difficult to estimate
                        exact size of rendered tiles, but thought I'd
                        try to get some opinions.</div>
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                        <div>I see this questions asked in a variety of
                          ways and I know it's not exactly precise on
                          how to get the answer, but I'll throw my
                          question out to see what I get ;)</div>
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                        <div>We have a client who would like us to tile
                          and serve up high-resolution aerial
                          photography that they own. The area is about
                          800 square miles and the imagery is 6-inch
                          resolution. They'd like to be able to view the
                          imagery at zoom levels 11 through 20 (with
                          level 20 being 1 pixel=6 inches). Is there any
                          way at all to determine how large a resulting
                          raster tile set might be?</div>
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                        <div>Many thanks,</div>
                        <div>  Paul</div>
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