[El] BigTiff

[Peter Hopfgartner]

--------Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [El] BigTiff
Date: 27.10.2010 04:09

>Hatzopoulos, Nikolaos wrote:
>> How We can add BigTiff support to gdal?
>> 
>> gdal_merge.py -co bigtiff-yes -of GTiff -o test.tif nax81.tif nax82.tif
>nax83.tif
>> Warning 6: Creation option 'bigtiff-yes' is not formatted with the
>key=value format
>> ERROR 6: A 44610 pixels x 62319 lines x 3 bands Byte image would be
>larger than 4GB
>> but this is the largest size a TIFF can be, and BigTIFF is unavailable.
>> Creation failed.
>> Creation failed, terminating gdal_merge.
>
>Nikolaos,
>
>BigTIFF support will require libtiff 4 (beta).  I see currently a rather
>antique libtiff is being used.   Note that the libtiff4 ABI is different
>than libtiff3.
>

Hi Nikolaos

I did a quick and dirty source package of tiff4, you'll find it at  http://www.r3-gis.com/upload/libtiff-3.99.6-1.el5.src.rpm. Could you try to build gdal and other tiff dependencies against this version?


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Regards,

Peter
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