[Qgis-user] layer with multiple geotiff or jp2?

Jorge Gustavo Rocha jgr at geomaster.pt
Sat Jun 14 07:49:44 PDT 2025


Greg,

You can try GDAL. You can create a virtual layer with all those images.

gdalbuildvrt massgis.vrt *.jp2

The add massgis.vrt to QGIS.

Jorge

Às 18:56 de 13/06/25, Greg Troxel via QGIS-User escreveu:
> I've been sort of looking for how to do this, but not find it.
> Apologies if I've failed to read the docs.
>
> I have imagery (from MassGIS) that is stored as .jp2.  Functionally I
> think this is the same as geotiff with different compression.  I can
> 'add layer' on it and that works fine.
>
> I also have DEM tiles as geotiff, with the same partitioning scheme and
> datum.
>
>
> I can make a group, and do add layer on 20 such files.   That works, but
> if I want to style it, it's awkward.   Inside qgis, I want to view this
> as one layer -- because that's what it is, and the separate jp2 files
> are just an artifact of transmission.
>
>
> I realize I could process them into a big jp2.  I realize I could create
> a WMTS from them and run geoserver.  And perhaps put them into
> postgresql postgis raster.   But I don't want to do any of those things.
> I just want to say
>
>    add layer
>      this directory contains a bunch of jp2 and logically they are all
>      the same layer.
>
> or something like that.
>
>
> Is this doable?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
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