[gdal-dev] Having overview URL inside VRT

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 17 octobre 2018 23:18:05 CEST Denis Rykov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know that it possible using GDAL VRT describe overviews with <Overview>
> tag.
> But it is not very convenient way in many cases. I'm wondering whether it
> is possible to put a link to overview *.ovr file inside a VRT?
> In some scenarios we cannot use a relative path and assumption that *.ovr
> should be located in the same place alongside the original raster doesn't
> work.
> Does it make sense to have such feature for VRT?

Hum, why not just create a symlink from the actual location to "your.vrt.ovr" 
next to your.vrt ?

Even

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