overlay_aerial

The special treatment for overlay_aerial is quite different. Packaging is problematic when a module reads a file, but that process results in reading additional files (as with shapefiles). This also occurs with imagery when orthorectified images include an image file and a georeferencing file (e.g. world file, .gcp file, etc.).

 

To resolve this, overlay_aerial's "Convert to Packaged" button creates a GeoTIFF file that is both cropped and matched to the specified resolution in overlay_aerial. This creates a new single image file which is generally dramatically smaller than the original files which were read. Your application is unchanged except that the Filename specified in overlay_aerial will reference the new packaged geotiff file created by this process.