Reciprocal to gdal_merge.py ?

[pierrick.brihaye@…]

Hi,

Does it make sense to have a utility reciprocal to gdal_merge ? gdal_split or
something like this.

The purpose would be to generate "tiles" from big raster files and especially
500 Mb uncompressed files for a free ECW compression ;-)

Specific arguments could be :
-of file0000.tif (0000 being a numbering pattern)
-od outputdirectory | -oa outputarchive
-ts width height
-fs 500m
-t_srs

Cheers,

p.b.