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I ask because I have created a 55 billion pixel vrt of elevation data. I linked it to a GRASS mapset . It did take an hour to link , but the zooming and panning is reasonably responsive afterwards.  </div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Markus Neteler <neteler@osgeo.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 23, 2020 4:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Newcomb, Doug <doug_newcomb@fws.gov><br>
<b>Cc:</b> grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [GRASS-dev] r.external cache or add overviews?</font>
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:26 PM Newcomb, Doug via grass-dev<br>
<grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Folks,<br>
> Does r.external generate overviews during the linking process?<br>
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I don't think so.<br>
There is no sign of it in<br>
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Markus<br>
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