[gdal-dev] Need some help understanding why this raster is so big

Brian mulcahy.brianp at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 05:42:59 PDT 2020


Is it faster to do a gdal_warp with compression then without? Is it safe
to assume the drive write speed would be the limiting factor for speed in
this case?

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 8:33 AM CainĂ£ K. Campos <rupestre.campos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Brian,
>
> Try to add the switch   -co "COMPRESS=LZW" to the command line to
> generate a compressed result with lossless compression.
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:07 AM Brian <mulcahy.brianp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So compressed this raster is fairly small about 120mb but running
>> gdal_warp produces a raster that is about 416 gb, is this something this
>> list can help with? If so I can upload the file somewhere and let you
>> guys/gals take a look at it.
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