Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 63 : Sparse datasets improvements

2016-07-09 Thread Even Rouault
Le samedi 09 juillet 2016 10:35:21, James Ramm a écrit : > Definitely a welcome improvement! > Especially useful where the read window does not match natural block size > (so the current sparse functionality doesnt help much). It improved the > efficiency of a blob extraction algorithm (which requi

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 63 : Sparse datasets improvements

2016-07-09 Thread James Ramm
Definitely a welcome improvement! Especially useful where the read window does not match natural block size (so the current sparse functionality doesnt help much). It improved the efficiency of a blob extraction algorithm (which requires overlapping windows and thus cannot use natural blocks) we us