Ciao Robert,
please, read below...
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Robert Buckley <robertdbuck...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> The orthophotos make up a mosaic of my regional planning area . (see
> Attatchment) Nothing more than a tiled surface.
>
> So you are suggesting that I upload 1300 separate files into geoserver?
> 1300 x 76 mb? (100gb) That alone would take about 2 weeks
>
> your wrote..
>
> "geotiffs with overviews (if they are too big just slice them in a few
> parts so that they don't become bigtiffs and have GeoServer treat them as a
> mosaic)."
>
> Is the Slice Tool a gdal tool?
>
you can as an instance use gdal_translate
>
>
> "people organized the data in different workspaces so that they can use
> virtual services to avoid serving back a caps document with 160000 layer
> descriptions
> inside"
>
> What is a virtual geoserver service?
>
you can assign layers to workspaces so that you can then filter our the
GetCap document. Not sure it is what you want, I guess you want to have a
single layer for all this images not N-thousands layers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
> *An:* Robert Buckley <robertdbuck...@yahoo.com>
> *CC:* geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, den 20. April 2011, 9:07:21 Uhr
> *Betreff:* Re: [Geoserver-users] Publishing 1300 orthophotos with
> geoserver
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Robert Buckley
> <robertdbuck...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There are many threads which explain how to create an imagemosaic or
> > pyramid, but not so many regarding the preparation of the raw data.
> >
> > I have ~1300 orthophotos which have been bought for desktop use in
> ArcGIS.
> >
> > Resolution (X,Y) = 0,4m, 0,4m
> > columngs/rows = 5003 x 5003
> > total Area = 2km x 2km (4km²)
> > Format = TIFF
> > Size = ~70mb
> >
> > total size of region: 5000km²
> >
> > I have been asked if I can serve these with geoserver. The alternative
> seems
> > to be the purchase of ArcServer which is a cop-out in my view!
> >
> > My first problem is the preparation.
> >
> > 1. Transform all photos into wgs84
> > 2. Convert to geoTIFFs
> >
> > and now i´m a bit lost! what are my choices to take this further?
> > 1. Do I have to convert 1300 photos using the gdal_retile and upload them
> > into geoserver?
>
> 5000x5000 is "small", not worth doing a pyramid, stick with geotiffs
> with overviews (if they are too big just slice them in a few parts so that
> they don't become bigtiffs and have GeoServer treat them as a mosaic).
>
> > I can´t image having to upload 1300 pyramid stores into geoserver!
>
> I've seen deploys with 160000 layers, they appear to be working fine
> They take quite a bit of time to start up of course, and people organized
> the data in different workspaces so that they can use virtual services
> to avoid serving back a caps document with 160000 layer descriptions
> inside, plus they have an associated OGC catalog to ease search
> for a layer in the server.
>
> That said, these images, are they in some way associated with each other?
> Like same area different times?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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