[gdal-dev] Having overview URL inside VRT

[Denis Rykov]

Thanks for quick reply. Unfortunately this suggestion will not work for us,
since we want to use an ovr that is located online and it is hard to manage
URLs in this case. Is it worthwhile to implement this in GDAL?

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:25 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> 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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