Thanks all, creating a .wld file and -Xmx1024M did the trick.
--adrian On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:30 +0200, Andrea Aime wrote: > Adrian Custer ha scritto: > > Hey all, > > > > I'm trying to digest a 1/2 global land cover tiff. The source is: > > http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/LCC/ > > and the specific file is > > http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/LCC/Images/lcc_east_1km.tif > > > > nothing on my machine can open this file. Is there a way to add the > > location information to the file so uDig can open it? Also, is there a > > way to pre-tile the file into one of those image pyramids I keep hearing > > about? > > With current uDig, you'll have hard times, 25MB is a bit big for it, > give it plenty of memory. And you have to write a .tfw file for it, > see some docs here: > http://www.omg.unb.ca/~jonnyb/processing/geotiff_tifw_format.html > http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#WLD > > In the future, with a uDig that uses geotools 2.3.x or trunk, it's going > to be relatively quick, especially if you do use gdal_translate to pre > tile it, and gdaladdo to add overviews to it. > Pyramids, forget about them, the pyramid generator is broken at the > moment, but besides this, you don't need a pyramid for such a "small" > file (it's only 25MB). > > Cheers > Andrea _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
