does gdaladdo need tiled image

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:11:57 +0100, joerg pfeiffer <superbla3000 at gmx.net> wrote:
> hello,
>
> I want to add gdaladdo overviews to a latlong geotiff. But I get the error:
> ERROR 1: TIFFReadEncodedTile() failed
>
> Do I always have to tile the image first?

Joerg,

I am pretty sure it normally works fine on untiled images.  There may be
some specific issue with your file, or the build of GDAL and libtiff.
If you provide me with the file (off list) I could investigate a bit.

Best regards,
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