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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>With GDAL-1.7.0 you have the
option to build VRT files. This VRT works like a caster catalogue. For building
your VRT you can use the gdalbuildvrt tool delivered by gdal.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Dr. Horst
Düster</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Stv. Amtschef /
GIS-Koordinator </span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Kanton
Solothurn</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Bau- und
Justizdepartement</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Amt für
Geoinformation</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>SO!GIS
Koordination</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Rötistrasse
4</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>CH-4501 Solothurn</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Telefon ++41(0)32 627 25
32</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Telefax ++41(0)32 627 22
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>mailto:horst.duester@bd.so.ch</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>http://www.agi.so.ch</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>-----Ursprüngliche
Nachricht-----</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Von: maning sambale
[mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com]</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Gesendet
am: Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 11:33</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>An:
Stephan Holl</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Cc:
qgis-user</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user]
raster-catalogue-support</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>+1 here.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Stephen, as a workaround, I
use a local wms to load 500+
topographic</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>maps in QGIS, using the
generated index.shp from gdaltindex.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>An example map file is like
this:</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>LAYER</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>
NAME 'Topo_Sheet'</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '> STATUS
ON</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '> TILEINDEX
'/__/toposheets/topo_index.shp'</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>
TILEITEM 'location'</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '> TYPE
RASTER</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '> PROCESSING
"DITHER=YES"</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>
PROJECTION</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '> "+proj=longlat
+ellps=clrk66 +no_defs"</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>
END</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '> END</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>The WMS layer will load only
the tiles you need within the QGIS mapwindow.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:25
PM, Stephan Holl <stephan.holl@intevation.de>
wrote:</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> Hi
QGIS-users,</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
does someone know if QGIS has an option to read raster-catalogues
(as</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> the ones usable for MapServer
generated with
tileindex)?</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
If yes, I would be interested how to
use.</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> If not, it does not seem too
difficult to create a python-plugin
to</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> support this sort of
layers.</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
TIA</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
Stephan</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
--</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> Stephan Holl
<stephan.holl@intevation.de> | Tel.: +49 (0)541-33 508
3663</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> Intevation GmbH, Neuer
Graben 17, 49074 OS | AG Osnabrück - HR B
18998</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> Geschäftsführer:
Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver
Wagner</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>--
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>cheers,</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>maning</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>"Freedom
is still the most radical idea of all"
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