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The amount of storage, either logical or physical, required for a file or dataset.

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GDAL retile to create near-uniform file sizes?

Raster tiles tend to use a regular grid and each tile on certain zoom level covers as large area. If data is dense then the tile will be bigger as compressed. As uncompressed you would get tiles with …
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How to see the size of individual layers in a geopackage

Use the SQLite utility "sqlite3_analyzer https://www.sqlite.org/sqlanalyze.html Usage example and an excerpt of the very comprehensive report showing the data for one data layer. Notice that it is pos …
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Remove unneeded columns from geographic data file?

Shapefile as a temporary file format is not necessary and it may also alter the GML data (shorten attribute names, cut strings to max 255 characters, change DATETIME to DATE etc.) I would use ogr2ogr …
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GeoTIFF smallest bit depth value

You can make your image significantly smaller by converting it into a single-band paletted TIFF with rgb2pct.py. Moreover, you can continue and reduce the bit depth of the single band TIFF with gdal_t …
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Cleaning large Shapefile using v.clean in order to dissolve features?

The source data seems to be rather hard to handle as vectors as you have noticed. However, this workaroung that goes through an intermediate raster file works well and it is very fast. 1) Use gdal_ra …
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