[OSGeo Africa] .ovr

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Jaco


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Jaco Engelbrecht <Jaco at bolandkelder.co.za>wrote:

>  Hi
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> I have a .ovr file that I need to open in QGis. It contains a lot of
> rasters merged into one (done in ArcGis). Is there a way that I can access
> that?
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Isnt that an overview file? You will need to have the original raster too
in order to be able to open it.

In QGIS more usually we would use a .vrt virtual raster (which also
supports ovr overviews). I believe ArcGIS should also support vrts since it
ships with GDAL.

Regards

Tim


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