[gdal-dev] Registered Content-Type for VRT?

[Howard Butler]

> On Apr 19, 2021, at 12:04 PM, Sean Gillies via gdal-dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen a VRT media type in the wild, nor is there one on https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml.
> 
> Maybe application/gdalvrt+xml?

So application/gdalvrt+json could then still happen ;)

> As far as I know, GDAL is the only software that plays VRTs, and probably the only software that ever can, considering the extensions and embedded Python stuff.

Good point. I was mostly considering its use as a tiling and data resource pointer more than the processing configuration aspects of it.

Howard