[FWTools] Size limit for opening TIFFs?

[Jason Birch]

Seems like I'm just not going to get any joy today :)

Tried merging all but the largest files and got:

D:\Orthos>gdal_merge -o nanaimo.tif -n 255 -ps 1 1  -v
Nanaimo_NE_2006_10cm.tif
Nanaimo_NW_2006_10cm.tif Nanaimo_SE_2006_10cm.tif
Nanaimo_SW_2006_10cm.tif

Filename: Nanaimo_NE_2006_10cm.tif
File Size: 20000x21000x3
Pixel Size: 0.500000 x -0.500000
UL:(427000.000000,5455000.000000)   LR:(437000.000000,5444500.000000)
Copy 0,0,20000,21000 to 8000,1500,10000,10500.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\FWTOOL~1.1\bin\gdal_merge.py", line 503, in ?
    fi.copy_into( t_fh, band, band, nodata )
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\FWTOOL~1.1\bin\gdal_merge.py", line 303, in
copy_into
    nodata_arg )
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\FWTOOL~1.1\bin\gdal_merge.py", line 125, in
raster_copy
    nodata )
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\FWTOOL~1.1\bin\gdal_merge.py", line 162, in
raster_copy_with
_nodata
    nodata_test = Numeric.equal(data_src,nodata)
MemoryError: can't allocate memory for array

These are the files.  Their current cellsize is 0.5m.  Do I need to
resample to 1m before doing the merge to avoid the 4GB limit?

02/12/2007  11:18     1,260,526,905 Nanaimo_NE_2006_10cm.tif
02/12/2007  11:34     1,152,594,904 Nanaimo_NW_2006_10cm.tif
02/12/2007  11:15       864,450,627 Nanaimo_SE_2006_10cm.tif
02/12/2007  11:00       472,623,125 Nanaimo_SW_2006_10cm.tif

Jason