[Qgis-user] .mbtiles raster conversion error

[Even Rouault]

Le samedi 05 septembre 2015 18:16:33, Jim Proctor a écrit :
> Greetings — I’m running QGIS latest (2.10.1) on Mac OS latest, and
> attempting to convert a raster to .mbtiles format via Raster > Conversion
> > Translate. The error I receive is: ERROR 6: GDALDriver::Create() ... no
> create method implemented for this format. I’ve searched, and the two best
> answers I’ve seen are either that:
> 
> (a) This is not a GDAL-support conversion format on my computer. So in a
> terminal window I typed "gdalinfo --formats” and the response did include
> "MBTiles (rov): MBTiles.”

rov means read-only virtual. The write-side of the driver isn't implemented

If you badly need it, with GDAL 2.0, there's a potential trick:
http://erouault.blogspot.fr/2014/12/gdal-geopackage-raster-support.html

> 
> (b) There is a longstanding QGIS bug: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4304. But,
> given (a), .mbtiles is indeed a writeable format, yes?

The QGIS bug is it should filter out non-writeable formats.

> 
> An additional, possibly unrelated, error: when I select .mbtiles in the
> dropdown menu, the filename suffix is one off (“.ter”); so I trick it by
> selecting “MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap,” which seems to render
> the correct script ("gdal_translate -of MBTiles /loc/filename.tif
> /loc/filename.mbtiles”).
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim P.

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