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    Hi Gavin,<br>
    Cool - I missed that bit of the blurb.<br>
    What's nice is that it allows one to script the build-vrt process
    and use parts of filenames as your processing order :-)  (rather
    than alphabetical etc)<br>
    Regards & thanks,<br>
    Zoltan<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018/03/16 11:59, Gavin Fleming via
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        <blockquote type="cite" class="">If there is some amount of
          spatial overlapping between files, the order of files
          appearing in the list of source matter: files that are listed
          at the end are the ones from which the content will be
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            <div class="">On 16 Mar 2018, at 11:34, Mazano via
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                background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On 03/16/2018
                10:18 AM, Zoltan via qgis-za-user wrote:<br class="">
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                cite="mid:5AAB7DBB.6030609@geograph.co.za"
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                rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Hi,<span
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                Is there a (repeatable) way to specify the stacking
                order of rasters in a VRT?<span
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                Maybe by adding them one by one, oldest first?<span
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                !important;" class="">Have you tried using the plugin<span
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                href="https://bitbucket.org/jakimowb/virtual-raster-builder"
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                rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline
                !important;" class="">. It provides a nice GUI for
                creating stacks and it might do what you want to do.</span><br
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                The National orthos in South Africa have an overlap
                region and as they are flown in different time periods,
                I want to specify the stacking order and not 'blend' the
                pixels or put older ones on top when viewing the VRT.<span
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                Thanks in advance,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br
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                Zoltan<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br
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