Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#3859 new enhancement

r.out.gdal: Add notes about bigtiff and example with BIGTIFF=YES (or similar) to manual

Reported by: sbl Owned by: grass-dev@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.8.3
Component: Docs Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: r.out.gdal Cc:
CPU: All Platform: All

Description

In r.out.gdal I get Error 1 Maximum TIFF file size exceeded. Use BIGTIFF=YES. Would be great if GRASS could use BIGTIFF=IF_NEEDED/IF_SAFER by default when exporting GeoTiff or if it could compute the required creation option from region size, number of bands and data type...

Change History (6)

in reply to:  description comment:1 by mmetz, 5 years ago

Replying to sbl:

In r.out.gdal I get Error 1 Maximum TIFF file size exceeded. Use BIGTIFF=YES. Would be great if GRASS could use BIGTIFF=IF_NEEDED/IF_SAFER by default when exporting GeoTiff or if it could compute the required creation option from region size, number of bands and data type...

The idea of using GDAL/OGR is that the code does not need to bother about format-specific options. By now GRASS code does take care of some special formats to prevent errors and/or to follow GDAL instructions, but for code maintenance I would like to keep this to a minimum.

There is a reason (on the GDAL side) why BIGTIFF=YES is not the default: not all (Geo)Tiff drivers support BIGTIFF.

comment:2 by sbl, 5 years ago

Component: RasterDocs
Summary: r.out.gdal: Do not fail with big tiffs if user does not provide BIGTIFF=YES creatoptr.out.gdal: Add notes about bigtiff and example with BIGTIFF=YES (or similar) to manual

Thanks for the swift feedback! Point taken. Changed into a documentation ticket (that I could fix myself).

comment:3 by neteler, 5 years ago

Milestone: 7.8.07.8.1

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comment:4 by neteler, 4 years ago

Milestone: 7.8.17.8.2

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comment:5 by neteler, 4 years ago

Milestone: 7.8.2

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comment:6 by neteler, 4 years ago

Milestone: 7.8.3
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