[gdal-dev] Re: gdal_translate waits at the end of operation

[Frank Warmerdam]

It should be possible to specially implement the CreateCopy for XYZ
format to avoid this.  I'll investigate this.

Best regards,


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:30 AM, kaarigar <kaarigar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Etienne Tourigny-3 wrote
>>
>> Something that is not apparent is that gdal_translate (via driver's
>> GDALCreateCopy()) usually opens the new dataset after creation, and
>> the XYZ file loading is slow:
>>
> That explains it - the XYZ file created is ~4gb in size - it would take it a
> very very long time to figure out the details from it. What I don't
> understand is why gdal_translate would want to open the created xyz file? Is
> there a special build of this utility that doesn't do this?
>
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