Hi Stefan, you are right, there is this issue in qgis >= 1.7.
We lost many time tracking it down and yesterday Pedro V. finally found the reason, and there is an easy workaround. http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3867 I have now to change the title and give the ticket a new description. cheers -- Giovanni -- On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 00:38 -0700, Stefan Sylla wrote: > Dear list, > > I have some very large geotiff-files (up to 10 GB) from satellite imagery > that I need to load into QGIS. To speed up the rendering, I created pyramids > on those images with gdaladdo. In QGIS 1.6 this worked very fine and the > images where loaded (after adding them with "Add Raster Layer") within a few > seconds. > > Now, after I updated to QGIS 1.7, it takes several minutes to load the > images into QGIS with "Add Raster Layer" (after being loaded, however, > everything works fine and I can zoom in and out without any time-consuming > rendering processes). > > Anyone has an idea why QGIS 1.7 takes so much time to load the images, as it > was working fine in QGIS 1.6? > > I am using QGIS on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit. > > Hope someone can help > Stefan > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/qgis-1-7-geotiff-problem-tp6486091p6486091.html > Sent from the qgis-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
