> Hi Hans, ECW is a proprietary format with internal overviews and tiling. > In my understanding it does not require the client to decompress the whole > file for each request.
Indeed it does not require a decompression of the whole file - in my experience though the partial decompression is still slower (especially on big ECWs) than reading an overview using GDAL. It might be something to do with the way the OS accesses the ECW file. Cheers, Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
