[Mapserver-users] Creating Raster Tiles

[Frank Warmerdam]

Thomas Bartlett wrote:
> G'Day All,
>  
> I'm sorry for asking a non-mapserver question but I am running out of 
> ideas. 
>  
> I have a single, large Raster image which I want to cut up into tiles 
> for display within Mapserver. 
>  
> Is there any software which will split this image up into a number of 
> smaller images??  I have ERDAS Imagine 8.4 but it only seems to create 
> individual subsets... which will take for ever !!!

Thomas,

You could certainly write an eml to do this in Imagine.  It would also
be fairly easy to write a GDAL python script, or mainline program to
accomplish this ... it would be a nice companion to the gdaltindex program
for building the tile index file for a set of raster tiles.

Best regards,

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