[GRASS-user] importing Mars DEM takes too long

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Sajid Pareeth <spareeth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Anna
>
> I am not sure if it is related, but I had similar issues with Sentinel JP2
> files.

.. me too, but...:

> The solution was to use the ECW library to read the JP2 files instead of
> JP2OpenJPEG/JPEG-2000 driver with OpenJPEG library.
>
> I had to recompile gdal to add the ECW support.

I did that for some weeks, then dropped it (also because of the
license situation and the packaging pain).
Recent GDAL seems to be faster due to driver improvements.

Anna: which GAL version do you use?

Markus