We are also going down this rabbit hole. currently we have the rasters stored in Azure Blob Storage and we do have a "folder structure" in use. You kinda have to trick the blob storage if you want to generate the structure prior to loading any data. I do this by adding a txt file to each directory as a place holder. This txt file will prevent the dir from disappearing if there are no blobs contained in it. You can name it whatever you like (readme.txt, dir.txt, etc..). I like to include some basic information like the dir structure, contact info and a brief description of the contents. Those details are of course completely optional. I use Azure Storage Explorer and follow these general steps:
- Connect the container
- Click create new folder to create the top level folder
- Immediately after creating the folder upload the .txt file mentioned above.
- Repeat for each dir level you want.
There are more elegant and automated ways to accomplish this, in-fact, you could create the file structure you want, with those place holder files on your local disk and then use AzCopy or Azure Storage Explorer to upload the entire directory structure all at once.
All that said, we are still trying to figure out the ins and outs of storing imagery and point clouds in blob store and actually use it. Interested in any tips or tricks that anybody might have regarding this.
