[Gdal-dev] using gdaladdo with tiled tifs

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jeff Hoffmann wrote:
> Actually, I guess with fairly small tiles compressed overviews may not 
> be such a bad thing since I won't be particularly CPU-constrained and 
> they should decompress pretty quickly.  Maybe some benchmarking might be 
> in order.  I think the thing that got me wondering this is that you 
> don't really see much information about the overviews other than their 
> size so I guess I just always assumed they replicated the settings of 
> the original image.

Jeff,

You can see details about them with the tiffinfo application if needed.
It is part of libtiff, but can be found in FWTools.

Best regards,
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