[Gdal-dev] RFE 1369: reading gzipped files in situ (raster.tif.gz)

[Matt Wilkie]

Hello All, I've run into a fair amount of raster imagery, OnEarth for 
example, which is available gzipped instead of using an internal 
compression. It would be very convenient if gdal could read gzipped 
files in situ. Having to decompress the files to a scratch space first 
means having to keep a lot extra room around to manouver as well writing 
a lot of little throughway scripts. In other applications which do read 
.gz files such as VTP it also seems to be a lot faster to read/write a 
.gz than an uncompressed file. Perhaps because of less disk use (?).

Request For Enhancement #1369
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1369

cheers,

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