[mapserver-users] Re: Raster dataset recommendations

[Mark Korver]

If you are merging tiles together to create 1 large tif, why would you
need to create an index to it?  I would think you would just directly
reference the tif.

so, rather than
 TILEINDEX ../data/myindex

skip the index building steps

just
 DATA ../data/big.tif

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Edi.Karadumi <edikaradumi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since it as less than 4gb, if you have the image in different tiles just
> merge them together. The image format should be tif.
>
> 1- Fisrt enable internal tiling with the command
>
> gdal_translate -co "TILED=YES" original.tif tiled.tif
>
> 2-than add overviews
>
> gdaladdo -r average 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
>
> 3-create a tileindex
>
> gdaltindex myindex.shp *.tif
>
> 4-than create a spatial index
>
> shptree myindex.shp
>
> and finally add the layer to the map
>
> LAYER
>  NAME myorthos
>  TYPE RASTER
>  DUMP TRUE
>  STATUS ON
>  TILEINDEX ../data/myindex
>  TILEITEM Location
>
>
>
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