[GRASS-user] Best workflow

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Paul,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Paul Meems <bontepaarden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Markus for your suggestion.
>
> I first tried Stefan's suggestion of using a VRT-file.
> I have 1300 tiff-files with a combined file size of 400GB. Creating the VRT-file was no problem, but when I tried to import the VRT-file in GRASS7 using r.in.gdal GRASS crashes and dies.

Huh - should not happen .. But which operating system are you using,
which GRASS version etc?
You may post the result of

g.version -bge

> Loading the same VRT-file in QGis did take some time to load but it worked.

Please post also the output of

gdalinfo yourfile.vrt

> So I think I need to set-up a GeoServer after all, just to get a small portion of my height data to process in GRASS without worrying about polygons that are partially on multiple tiff-files.
>
> Of course I'm open to any other suggestion. As said I'm new to GRASS.

Let's try harder, data in the your file size range should not be a problem.

Markus