[GRASS-user] Working with large images

[Ned Horning]

Nikos,

Thanks for responding. I installed the 6.4 RC4 binary from the "weekly 
snapshot". Is BigTIFF support only available if I compile from source?

Ned

Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 23:07 +0300, Ned Horning wrote:
>   
>> Hi -
>>
>> I am trying to load a large (8 GB) tiff image into GRASS 6.4 RC4 and I 
>> get an error message saying that BigTIFF is not support by this version 
>> of GDAL and libtiff. Is there a way to read BigTIFF files using GRASS?
>>     
>
> Hi Ned!
>
> I assume you compile(d) from source. You need to ensure that gdal is
> compiled with BigTIFF support.
>
> ---%<--- from [1] ---%<---
> BigTIFF is a TIFF variant which can contain more than 4GiB of data (size
> of classic TIFF is limited by that value). This option is available if
> GDAL is built with libtiff library version 4.0 or higher (which is the
> case of the internal libtiff version from GDAL >= 1.5.0). The default is
> IF_NEEDED. (IF_NEEDED and IF_SAFER are available from GDAL 1.6.0).
> ---%<--- from [1] ---%<---
>
> It is supported if you use "--with-libtiff=internal" in your
> configuration script. Check also [2].
>
> Or did you install binaries from the Ubuntu repo's?
> Cheers, Nikos
> ---
>
> [1] http://www.gdal.org/frmt_gtiff.html
> [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/TIFF
>
>