[gdal-dev] GDAL /vsistdin/ 1MB limit

Andrew C Aitchison andrew at aitchison.me.uk
Wed May 5 00:32:26 PDT 2021


On Tue, 4 May 2021, Romeo Alvaraz wrote:

> Thanks Even for the response and clarifications on /vsistdin/.  Our reasons
> for attempting to use /vsistdin/ is to avoid having to read a file from the
> local file system (which we would have to write to first by other means) on
> our remote server. We've been using this in conjunction with /vsistdout/.
>
> /vsicurl/  was another option we considered for the input but it's not ideal
> to our situation.
>
> I'm just wondering  if there is another handler/method you could suggest
> that could feed the input directly to gdal_translate in order to bypass use
> of file system?

A python script could store the incoming data in /vsimem/ and call 
gdal_translate internally

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Kendal, UK
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