Loading GeoTiff into GeoPackage

In this section you will use the GDAL_TRANSLATE utility to create a GeoPackage layer starting from a GeoTiff image.

gdal_translate -of GPKG <input-file>.tif <output-file>.gpkg

Example

1. Open the gdal shell

2. Move to the user_data directory:

   (Linux)
   cd ${TRAINING_ROOT}/data/user_data directory
   
   or
   
   (Windows)
   cd %TRAINING_ROOT%\data\user_data directory
   

3. Run:

   gdal_translate -of GPKG bmreduced.tiff countries.gpkg -co APPEND_SUBDATASET=YES -co RASTER_TABLE=bmreduced -co TILE_FORMAT=JPEG
   

   gdaladdo -r cubic -oo TILE_FORMAT=JPEG countries.gpkg 2 4 8 16 32 64
   

4. Check the GeoPackage with a GIS client (eg. QGIS):

   1. From the Browser panel right click the GeoPackage section and click “New connection…”

      

   2. Browse the filesystem and select the created countries.gpkg database

   3. Add the layer named bmreduced into the Map canvas: