[gdal-dev] Re: Trouble with gdal2tiles.py

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Greg Coats <gregcoats <at> mac.com> writes:

> 
> 
> First, instead of using GDAL 1.6.0 from December 2008, why not use GDAL 1.7.2
from April 2010?
> Second, since your objective is to create a tiled GeoTIFF, you can do that
with one gdal_translate command.
> 
> $ gdal_translate --version
> GDAL 1.7.2, released 2010/04/23
> $ gdal_translate -of GTiff -ot Byte -co Compress=NONE \
> -co TILED=YES -co BLOCKXSIZE=256 -co BLOCKXSIZE=256 \
> 18stj940125.if 18stj940125_gdal_translate.tif
> Input file size is 5000, 5000
> 0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.

Gdal2tiles is creating a tile directory system and thus it is not the same thing
as tiled GeoTIFF.  Using new binaries is a good suggestion.  There is also a
standalone program called MapTiler that gives a nice GUI for gdal2tiles.

-Jukka Rahkonen-