Hi, May it is possible to add an action to the clic on the index layer loaded as a shapefile. Each time you clic on the layer, QGIS load the raster layer...
I don't know if it ispossible to add such action. Y. Le Monday 21 April 2008 16:03:05 David Fawcett, vous avez écrit : > I think that you have brought up an interesting idea though. > > After getting used to the idea of being able to use a tile index for large > raster data sets in MapServer. I have really wished that this feature > existed in desktop GIS. In ArcGIS, you can create a raster catalog, but > you have to use a geodatabase and their 'tile index' layer doesn't give > actual footprints of the images, just the bounding boxes. > > I think that it would be great to be able to use a tileindex in qGIS. > > David. > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Lionel Roubeyrie > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Big thanks Yves for pointing gdal (never thinking at all for it), there's > > a > > special command to merge multiple tiles into one with gdal_merge.py. > > Keep gdaltindex under the pillow :-) > > > > Le lundi 21 avril 2008, Jacolin Yves a écrit : > > > Le Monday 21 April 2008 14:04:39 Lionel Roubeyrie, vous avez écrit : > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have several tiles rasters (geotiff) describing a large area in > > > > high resolution, and generally I work on a small area, having to > > > > import all tiles because they don't have explicit names (and without > > > > the > > > > possibility > > > > > > to put them directly under a group (see a previous post), which > > > > should > > > > be > > > > > > a great improvement). > > > > Then, is it possible to extract/create a new raster for the desired > > > > area > > > > > > with QGIS/GRASS (know it's possible with Arcmap, with difficulties) ? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Hi Lionel, > > > > > > You can use gdaltindex to create an indexof your tile in shapefile > > > > format, > > > > > after displaying it you can show the "location" field on your map and > > > > find > > > > > the filename of the Raster you have to load for your area. > > > > > > If you want to extract an area from your raster you can again use gdal > > > > [1] > > > > > with some option to cut all data out of your area. I think you can use > > > g.region to zoom into your area and then export the raster from your > > > > view > > > > > region, after creating one main raster. > > > > > > I am agreeing with you for a better group management ;) May I need to > > > create a new ticket? Another possibility should be that QGIS manage > > > > index > > > > > file. > > > > > > Y. > > > > -- > > Lionel Roubeyrie - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Chargé d'études et de maintenance > > LIMAIR - la Surveillance de l'Air en Limousin > > http://www.limair.asso.fr > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-user mailing list > > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user