gdal2tiles: assess and merge features from maptiler version.

[hamish]

Hi,

the maptiler 1.0.beta2 .deb release has a slightly newer version of gdal2tiles.py than either the maptiler svn (on googlecode) or in the gdal/swig/python/scripts/ of that time.

Attached is a diff between r15748 of gdal's copy of the script and the version which shipped with maptiler.

One of the newer features (--srsnodata) was later merged in r16719, perhaps that later commit included a number of other parts of this patch as well? here's the diff between those two revisions:

​https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset?new=16719%40trunk%2Fgdal%2Fswig%2Fpython%2Fscripts%2Fgdal2tiles.py&old=15748%40trunk%2Fgdal%2Fswig%2Fpython%2Fscripts%2Fgdal2tiles.py

New stuff the attached patch:

new profiles: 'gearth' and 'garmin'

new options:

• --tile-format: Image format of generated tiles - default 'png'
• --init-dest: Colour used to initialize output, only for 'jpeg' tile format
• --tilesize: Size of the tiles - default 256
• -d, --kml-depth: How many levels to store before linking, default 1
• --kmz: Compress KML files into KMZ format, default for 'gearth' profile
• --no-kmz: Do not compress KML files into KMZ format, default for 'mercator', 'geodetic' and 'raster' profiles

IMO --tile-format seems to be the most important of these. (see also #2052)

Hamish

[hamish]

diff between gdal2tiles r15748 and maptiler_1.0.beta2_all.deb's version

[Even Rouault]

Hamish,

As you seem to have interest for gdal2tiles, would you be interested in taking 'ownership' on gdal2tiles as we currently lack a maintener for it ? A much needed feature would be adding a few regression tests for gdal2tiles that we currently lack. Would you be willing to do so ? Such tests could be added in http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/autotest/pyscripts

[Even Rouault]

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