As a practical matter, I do not see this 9999 restriction in GDAL. On Thu 21 Sep 2006, I created with gdal_merge.py a 3 GB .tif having 18,400 columns by 52,800 rows by RGB. On Thu 11 Dec 2009, gdal_translate processed a 150 GB untiled .tif to a tiled .tif with 260,000 columns by 195,000 rows. Greg
On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Even Rouault wrote: > I'm a bit surprised that you even managed to read a 40Kx100K large NITF file > organized as scanlines. There was a limit until very recently that prevented > to read blocks whose one dimension was bigger than 9999. This was fixed > recently in trunk ( see ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3263 ) and > branches/1.6, but it has not yet been released to an officially released > version. So which GDAL version are you using ?
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