SRTM3 > tiled, georeferenced images

[Rahkonen Jukka]

> I want to speed up my basemaps by "flattening" SRTM3 rasters and NHD
> shapefiles together into tiled georeferenced images that will reduce
> processing time. Are there solutions available to do this?

>  My current solution is a script that makes MS calls and creates .tif images
> from the result, but spatial reference is preventing gdaltindex from
>indexing these files. 

Hi,

I wonder why spatial reference is preventing indexing? Usually lack of that is the problem. And that problem can be avoided by defining the OUTPUTFORMAT as GeoTIFF.

-Jukka Rahkonen-