[Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-03 Thread Ben Johnson
I have >100,000 imagery files I would like to serve using GeoServer and would like to know the recommended way for serving these files? I tried to just import them all individually as files in a directory, but the GeoServer start-up time was over 2hrs!! I also tried to create an image pyramid from

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-03 Thread Bistrais, Bob
Hi Ben, You should use an ImageMosaic for this. -Bob From: Ben Johnson [mailto:weagl...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 11:27 AM To: GeoServer Mailing List List Subject: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files? I have >100,000 imagery files I would like

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-03 Thread Ben Johnson
ail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 03, 2015 11:27 AM > *To:* GeoServer Mailing List List > *Subject:* [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files? > > > > I have >100,000 imagery files I would like to serve using GeoServer and > would like to know the

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-03 Thread Bistrais, Bob
our resident experts can provide more detail on how to set it up. From: Ben Johnson [mailto:weagl...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 11:34 AM To: Bistrais, Bob; GeoServer Mailing List List Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files? Is there no

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-04 Thread Jody Garnett
uesday, February 03, 2015 11:27 AM >> *To:* GeoServer Mailing List List >> *Subject:* [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery >> files? >> >> >> >> I have >100,000 imagery files I would like to serve using GeoServer and >> would like

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-04 Thread Andrea Aime
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Ben Johnson wrote: > Is there no performance hit if the ImageMosaic ends up being several GBs > in size? > Anedoctically, up to 100GB is fine, the issue is not much the overall size, but the number of files to open in order to serve a single output image, that sho

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-05 Thread Ben Johnson
So I created an ImagePyramid using gdal from command line and got a directory structure of the images at different resolutions.. when I tried to use this directory via the web interface by following the instructions in the documentation I was unable to use the ImagePyramid because the geoserver web

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-06 Thread Andrea Aime
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Ben Johnson wrote: > So I created an ImagePyramid using gdal from command line and got a > directory structure of the images at different resolutions.. when I tried > to use this directory via the web interface by following the instructions > in the documentation

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-10 Thread Ben Johnson
thanks for the help guys! ImagePyramid was the answer, and for anyone doing this later when you use the gdal_retile tool you will have to move the images in the base directory into a 0/ directory as Andrea pointed out! Thanks a lot! On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > On Fri,

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-10 Thread Ben Johnson
So quick question. I created an image pyramid from my MrSID files and the resulting size was ~16* the size of the MrSID so I created an image pyramid of JP2K files instead because they get good compression and can be created using the gdal_retile tool however GeoServer fails to import an image pyra

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-11 Thread Jonathan Moules
] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files? So quick question. I created an image pyramid from my MrSID files and the resulting size was ~16* the size of the MrSID so I created an image pyramid of JP2K files instead because they get good compression and can be created using the gdal_retile

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to serve thousands of imagery files?

2015-02-12 Thread Daniele Romagnoli
Cheers, > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* Ben Johnson [mailto:weagl...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:55 PM > *To:* Andrea Aime > *Cc:* Bistrais, Bob; GeoServer Mailing List List > *Subject:* Re: [Geoserver-users] Best