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When trying to use QGIS to open a tif file larger than 10GB, I encountered an error says "*.tif is not a supported raster data source." Is there any way or other software to open large tif files?
QGIS should be able to open also larger that 4 GB tiff images (BigTIFF) if is it compiled with GDAL version that has the support. What is your GDAL version (check with gdalinfo --version . Does gdalinfo show the same error?
I got 'GDAL 1.7.3, released 2010/11/10' with gdalinfo --version. Does it mean that I should firstly recompile the GDAL lib, then re-install QGIS? Thanks for your attention.
BigTIFF support has been in GDAL at least in version 1.6 through libtiff 4.0 so your version should be high enough. I recommend still updating to 2.0 or 1.11. But did you already check your image with gdalinfo gdal.org/gdalinfo.html?
Oh, I tried gdalinfo gd-ll.tif and then got ERROR 4: This is a BigTIFF file. BigTIFF is not supported by this version of GDAL and libtiff. gdalinfo failed - unable to open '/home/Simon/Projects/Forrest/Data/Qingdao_1508/figures/qd-ll.tif'. I guess I have to recompile all of them? I used yum install gdal. Is there any convenient way to install gdal with bigTiff supported? Thanks a lot.
Sorry, I don't know anything about Linux repositories but I believe that BigTIFF support has been the default for years and if you find a ready packages for GDAL version >1.9 they probably work for you.
gdalinfo --version
. Does gdalinfo show the same error?gdalinfo --version
. Does it mean that I should firstly recompile the GDAL lib, then re-install QGIS? Thanks for your attention.gdalinfo gd-ll.tif
and then gotERROR 4: This is a BigTIFF file. BigTIFF is not supported by this version of GDAL and libtiff. gdalinfo failed - unable to open '/home/Simon/Projects/Forrest/Data/Qingdao_1508/figures/qd-ll.tif'.
I guess I have to recompile all of them? I usedyum install gdal
. Is there any convenient way to install gdal with bigTiff supported? Thanks a lot.