[postgis-devel] [WKT Raster] Regular blocking in gdal2wktraster.py

[Mateusz Loskot]

Pierre Racine wrote:
> Well, if your application does not support display of overlapping
> objects then you should not store overlapping tiles in your db... As if
> your application does not supports tiff then you should probably not
> store your data in tiff... It is not because some applications do not
> supports fonctionalities that we most stop developping functionalities.
> Overlapping rasters exist and they will always exist. Most desktop
> applications are able to display overlapping rasters. Your application
> would take for granted (checking first with SELECT regular_blocking
> FROM raster_columns WHERE name="mycoverage") that tiles are not
> overlapping.

I understand your point, thought It doesn't answer my question.
However there is no need for me to get the answer.

The thing is that I consider table as an overlay, similarly to
a table in PostGIS and I need to have a kind of
"topological correctness" of the tiles.

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot
Senior Programmer, Cadcorp
http://www.cadcorp.com