provide VRT writer for tile sets
mdsumner opened this issue · 2 comments
mdsumner commented
We will need to use VRT for really big tile sets, and with control from #8 that becomes more important.
- raster doesn't have any lazy merge capability, but it works with VRT as does stars
- stars proxy possibly
- our own lazy tile table?
It would be better to not do merging to a single PNG in R, though maybe magick
mdsumner commented
To do this we need to convert every band of every tile into this form
<VRTRasterBand dataType="Byte" band="1">
<ColorInterp>Red</ColorInterp>
<SimpleSource>
<SourceFilename relativeToVRT="1">tile1.png</SourceFilename>
<SourceBand>1</SourceBand>
<SourceProperties RasterXSize="524" RasterYSize="256" DataType="Byte" BlockXSize="524" BlockYSize="1" />
<SrcRect xOff="0" yOff="0" xSize="524" ySize="256" />
<DstRect xOff="0" yOff="0" xSize="524" ySize="256" />
</SimpleSource>
<SimpleSource>
<SourceFilename relativeToVRT="1">tile2.png</SourceFilename>
<SourceBand>1</SourceBand>
<SourceProperties RasterXSize="524" RasterYSize="269" DataType="Byte" BlockXSize="524" BlockYSize="1" />
<SrcRect xOff="0" yOff="0" xSize="524" ySize="269" />
<DstRect xOff="0" yOff="256" xSize="524" ySize="269" />
</SimpleSource>
</VRTRasterBand>
<VRTRasterBand dataType="Byte" band="2">
ceramic_tiles
has the right information, but it needs to be done at user-request with cc_location
.
- converter for extent/dim of child within extent/dim parent to VRT format above
- use absolute file path
- subvert cc_location with a more raw tile_downloader that returns VRT and file list (perhaps the ceramic_tiles table, and the VRT text or temp file, or an extra writer for that)