obtaining the pixels and lines from set of geotiffs without fully running gdalwarp

[Frank Warmerdam]

John Mitchell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to be able to obtain the pixels and lines of a mosaic from 
> set of geotiffs without fully running gdalwarp to create the mosaic but 
> just to give me the pixels and lines.  Currently I run gdalwarp -wo 
> skip_nosource=yes *.tif mosaicfile.tif and cancel it after it says 
> "Creating output file" and then run gdalinfo to obtain the pixels and 
> lines against the incomplete mosaic.

John,

The gdal_merge.py python script has a -createonly switch which essentially
does the same ... stop after the mosaic file creation.  Were you wanting a
way of doing this from the commandline?  From a python script?  From a C++
program?

Best regards,
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