[Gdal-dev] 1-band TIFF FILE color ramp NEEDED

[Frank Warmerdam]

alvarez00 wrote:
> I'm trying to make a color ramp for a 1-band tiff file or a jpeg. I have a
> 1-band tiff file and I converted that tiff file into VRT. I was reading some
> of the posts and some suggest to modify the VRT file and add a ColorTable
> tag but that doesn't work. My objective is to show the tiff(or)jpeg on
> google earth. I'm running version 1.4.1.0 of gdal. Below is the VRT file
> without any modifications. What I modify was the
> '<ColorInterp>Gray</ColorInterp>' to '<ColorInterp>Palette</ColorInterp>'
> and added a ColorTable.

Hi,

After modifying the VRT file to include a color table (why didn't you
show us that VRT file!) what did you do?  Did you try to open the VRT
in GE?  Did you gdal_translate that VRT back to a new geotiff and try to
view that?    Can you expand on "but that doesn't work"?

Best regards,
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