[Gdal-dev] create 256x256 tiles for google maps

[Mateusz Loskot]

Paul Van Deusen napisał(a):
> I am using imagemagick to crop a geotiff file into 256x256 gif files to
> serve as tiles for google maps.
> However, it starts to choke once the tiff file gets larger than  1/2
> GB.   Can gdal_translate take
> a tif file and split it into individual tile files of a specific size?

Paul,

AFAIK, GDAL won't help here out of the box.
Users usually take gdal_translate.cpp program and customize it to do this
job.
Here you can find such utility called gdalsplit and posted to the list a
longer while ago:

http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2004-September/004135.html

May be it will work for you.

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net