[FWTools] ECW Conversion and TIF Tiling

[Frank Warmerdam]

Eric Legge Smith wrote:
> Question - Should I stick with the single GeoTIFF + external overviews as
> the Mapserver data source, or is there some way to better utilise the
> tiled TIFFs

Eric,

A single TIFF with overviews is likely to give the best performance.  I'm
not sure why you specify external overviews as opposed to internal overviews
though.  Either should be fine.

Best regards,
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