[Gdal-dev] gdal_rasterize

[Frank Warmerdam]

Andrew Nelson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm experimenting with gdal_rasterize and I can't get it to work with
> compressed GTiffs (using either LZW or DEFLATE).  Of course it works
> perfectly with uncompressed images.  
> Any ideas why this is so? Do compressed files not support 'update mode 
> access'?

Andrew,

That is exactly the problem.  Generally speaking compressed files do
not support update mode.  If the error reports are not sufficiently
clear on what is going wrong, please feel free to file a bug report
with the details.

Best regards,

> I'm using GDAL1.3.2 from FWTools1.0.0 on Windows.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Andy
> 


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