If you are merging tiles together to create 1 large tif, why would you need to create an index to it? I would think you would just directly reference the tif.
so, rather than TILEINDEX ../data/myindex skip the index building steps just DATA ../data/big.tif On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Edi.Karadumi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since it as less than 4gb, if you have the image in different tiles just > merge them together. The image format should be tif. > > 1- Fisrt enable internal tiling with the command > > gdal_translate -co "TILED=YES" original.tif tiled.tif > > 2-than add overviews > > gdaladdo -r average 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 > > 3-create a tileindex > > gdaltindex myindex.shp *.tif > > 4-than create a spatial index > > shptree myindex.shp > > and finally add the layer to the map > > LAYER > NAME myorthos > TYPE RASTER > DUMP TRUE > STATUS ON > TILEINDEX ../data/myindex > TILEITEM Location > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Raster-dataset-recommendations-tp6064491p6064777.html > Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
