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

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ah, I see I misunderstood what Even's change was doing.  I'll work on this.


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have discovered Even already implemented my idea for XYZ and AAIGRID
> 19 months ago.  Based on that I don't know why you are seeing a large
> wait on closing.
>
>  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/20770/trunk/gdal/frmts/xyz
>
> hmm, I see a reference to 1.9dev - perhaps that was an old 1.9 pre-release
> version that predated the above change?  Perhaps you just need to update.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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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