[gdal-dev] MBTiles from gdal2tiles vs. from gdal_translate

[Even Rouault]

On dimanche 22 janvier 2017 18:22:05 CET Even Rouault wrote:
> On dimanche 22 janvier 2017 16:17:19 CET Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In the "Participating on gdal2tiles" thread Mark Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > "You might also consider incorporating the mbtiles implementation of a
> > fork
> > of gdal2tiles that can be found here:
> > https://github.com/mj10777/gdal2mbtiles
> > Here the goal was to also offer mbtiles as the output-format
> > - instead of a tiles-directory"
> > 
> > I would like to know what advantage/difference there is with saving
> > gdal2tiles output into MBtiles format vs. using gdal_translate with
> > MBTiles
> > driver http://www.gdal.org/frmt_mbtiles.html
> 
> If an enhanced gdal2tiles had multiprocessing / multithreading support, that
> would be one advantage.

Hum actually just realizing that the MBTILES write support uses the warping engine 
underneath (true for GeoPackage with the non CUSTOM tiling schemes as well). So the 
GDAL_NUM_THREADS config option can already be used to speed up the computational 
part.

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