[gdal-dev] vrt performance with 1000's of tiles?

[William Kyngesburye]

On Apr 5, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Matt Klaric wrote:

> Check out the SourceProperties tag in http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html. If you specify that for each source image, then GDAL doesn't have to open all 19000 images at runtime.  The performance is quite good.  

That would definitely help, and it looks like gdalbuildvrt does that automatically.  I guess I should just try it ;)

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