[Geowanking] downsampling large rasters from HD

[Andrew Larcombe]

On 18 Feb 2008, at 18:54, Rich Gibson wrote:

> Hi Viktoras,
>
> I think you want to use the GDAL tools, http://gdal.org.  You can  
> download them as part of the precompiled binary  FWTools at http:// 
> fwtools.maptools.org/

+1 to that. I wrote an app linked to the GDAL libs that did a similar  
thing on 4000x4000 pixel TIFFS. In benchmarking tests though it could  
easily handle 40k x 40k uncompressed tiffs writing portions out to  
jpegs.

Cheers,

Andrew

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