[GRASS-user] Working with large images

[Moritz Lennert]

On 26/04/09 15:53, Ned Horning wrote:
> Moritz,
> 
> When I run gdalinfo I get the following error: "ERROR 4: This is a 
> BigTIFF file. BigTIFF is not support by this version of GDAL and libtiff"

Well, then maybe the libtiff version used does not support BigTIFF. No 
expert on that. I guess that your best bet would be to recompile GDAL 
yourself using with-libtiff=internal.

On Ubuntu compiling is rather easy:

0) apt-get install build-essential fakeroot
1) apt-get build-dep gdal #to install all the packages necessary for 
compilation
2) mkdir gdal_src; cd gdal_src
3) apt-get source gdal # to download the source code + Ubuntu patches
4) cd into the source code directory created by 3)
5) edit debian/rules and add the line with-libtiff=internal to the 
configure parameters (long list of similar parameters) - don't forget 
the \ at the end
6) run 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage'
7) cd ..
8) sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Moritz

> 
> The command line runs GDAL version 1.5.4
> 
> Ned
> 
> Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> On 26/04/09 12:13, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
>>> Nikos:
>>>>> In Ubuntu repositories there is libgdal version 1.5 and I think it
>>>>> supports (by default) BigTIFF. I am not sure though.
>>>
>>>
>>> Moritz:
>>>> In Intrepid and Jaunty it is 1.5 compiled with 
>>>> --with-geotiff=internal, so it should work.
>>>
>>> Is this the same as "--with-libtiff=internal"? 
>>
>> No, sorry, your right, my bad.
>>
>> The Ubuntu GDAL links to an external libtiff4 so this should take of it.
>>
>> Ned, what does gdalinfo on the command line give you for this large 
>> file ?
>>
>> Moritz
>>
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