[Qgis-user] image boundary

[Alister Hood]

> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:44:24 +0200
> From: Ivan Mincik <ivan.mincik at gmail.com>
> To: skampus <stefano.campus at regione.piemonte.it>
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] image boundary
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> On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 19:15 -0700, skampus wrote:
> > thanks to giovanni manghi who told me to use tileindex module of gdal
> > in the raster menu.
> > great! all it works so i have my brand new shapefile having the path
> > each photo as attribute of each polygon.
> >
> > now i'd like to add an action in order to add the image to TOC.
> > what is the qgis internal function to use as an action to add raster
> > image to toc?
> 
> Do You know that You can use 'gdalbuildvrt' command to create virtual
> raster layer containing all your raster files and load it as one layer.
> Than files matching your viewport will be automatically loaded by demand.

FWIW Gdalbuildvrt is also available in the QGIS menu under Raster>Miscellaneous
But there are cases where using an action to load a raster from a tileindex is preferable...