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Geoserver Geotiff large and multiple files


I have a web map and I am using Geoserver. The Geotiff files are hosted in Geoserver. At the moment I am uploading the tif files from data_dir directory, however there are many files and larger files, so the disk space will not allow to host so much files. Is there a possibility to connect the data source to a Google drive or other cloud platform?


Solution

  • Yes, but performance will be very poor. You could look at using S3 buckets with the unsupported community Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) extension, but network latency will always be there.

    A better option is to make your imagery smaller if possible - make sure it is tiled and compressed, see Paul Ramsey's blog post GeoTiff Compression for Dummies for more details.