<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi GDAL,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Let's say I have two GTiff files in COG format:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">f1.tif</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">f2.tif</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">f1.tif and f2.tif are created like so:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><table class="gmail-highlight gmail-tab-size gmail-js-file-line-container gmail-js-code-nav-container gmail-js-tagsearch-file"><tbody><tr><td id="gmail-LC15" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line">gdal_translate input.tif <span class="gmail-pl-smi">f1.tif</span> \</td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table><table class="gmail-highlight gmail-tab-size gmail-js-file-line-container gmail-js-code-nav-container gmail-js-tagsearch-file"><tbody><tr><td id="gmail-LC16" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line">-of COG \</td>
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</tr></tbody></table> -co COMPRESS=JPEG \</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I can easily create a vrt of these two COGs and get the expected behaviour where the VRT honours the overviews of the f1 and f2 COGs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">gdalbuildvrt cog.vrt f1.tif f2.tif</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This is my question, is it possible to create a COG Tif from this VRT that copies over the overviews from each COG in the VRT?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For example something like:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">gdal_translate cog.vrt cog.tif -of COG -co OVERVIEWS=FORCE_USE_EXISTING</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I suspect this may not be possible. My guess is that translate is confused by which overviews to use when creating the single cog.tif? Or that when I created f1.tif and f2.tif I missed a setting?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have tried many combinations to get this to work, but I think it might be time to ask the experts. Any insight to this would be greatly appreciated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Cheer,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Ianto<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div style="color:rgb(212,212,212);background-color:rgb(30,30,30);font-family:"Droid Sans Mono","monospace",monospace;font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre"><div><span style="color:rgb(212,212,212)"></span></div></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ian C Reese</div><div><a href="https://xycarto.com" target="_blank">https://xycarto.com</a><br></div></div></div></div>