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Re:Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server by dionhaefner on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:01AM (#27957985)
I think the point was that Terracotta might be better off using GDAL directly instead of via rasterio.

Maybe, but I think mapbox is doing a great job with rasterio, and so far we didn’t run into any unsolvable problems (although we got close sometimes). I think for the ease of installation alone rasterio is a blessing.

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Re:Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server by houzi on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:20AM (#27958504)
Yes. I'm having a hard time finding a good selling point for rasterio.

> I think for the ease of installation alone rasterio is a blessing.

How does rasterio simplify installation, when you still have to deal with gdal's C extension dependencies?

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Re:Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server by dionhaefner on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:29AM (#27958570)
Rasterio wheels ship with GDAL binaries. No C compiler needed.
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