[gdal-dev] using GDAL tiled datasets within ArcMap

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:26:15AM -0700, Gregory, Matthew wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've used gdal2tiles to create tiled datasets out of very large rasters.
> However, I have only viewed the resultant PNGs within a web browser or
> in Google Earth.  Does anybody have experience with viewing the results
> within an ArcMap session?  If I'm understanding the format correctly,
> ArcMap would have to be able to render an OSGeo Tile Map Service in
> order for this to work?  It doesn't appear that ArcMap is able to take
> advantage of the KML created with the -forcekml option.

Your evaluation sounds correct, and I'm not aware of any way to read
these tilesets in ArcMap.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta