[gdal-dev] Ermapper / ECW Format

[Frank Warmerdam]

tmitchell at l... wrote:
> 
> Greetings, I'm new to the list but was wondering what needs to take
> place to include additional image formats. Has anyone been looking
> at ERMapper's ECW format? We are using it quite extensively and I am
> trying out OpenEV and since it depends on gdal I thought I'd ask
> about it here.
> Would love to know your thoughts. I've never developed image
> reading/writing code before, but I know that there is a SDK available
> for this format, how hard could it be to integrate to gdal?

Tyler, 

I too am interested in supporting ECW support. The licensing terms on 
the ecw library seem reasonable, albiet not free software in the source
available sense. For the time being it appears it would only be supported
by GDAL on Windows. 

Best regards,

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