[Mapserver-users] Ermapper ECW files on Linux ?

[Vincent Schut]

Bo,

According to the GDAL pages, the GDAL library is able to - with some 
limitations - read and write ECW files. See 
http://remotesensing.org/gdal/frmt_ecw.html for details. If you compiles 
mapserver with GDAL support, mapserver will be able to read all formats that 
GDAL can read.
I don't know anything about ERMapper files, so if they don't fit within GDAL's 
limitations, I apologize.

On Tuesday 18 March 2003 00:40, Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:
> AFAIK, the .ecw libraries are only available as a binary only
> distributions from ERMapper. Compression seems to only be available
> for Windows and MacOS, but decompression is available for Solaris
> and Java.
>
> 	http://www.ermapper.com/download_new/
>
> I have been thinking about the possibility of how you'd go about
> making one of these binaries visible to Linux, say using a service
> in WINE or Java. Since they do a bunch of other Unices, my guess is
> that the absense of .ecw libs for Linux must be for non-technical
> reasons, though I can't see why they couldn't do something similar
> to what PDFLib does.
>
> From the site:
> > The library is provided free of charge and royalty-free by
> > Earth Resource Mapping as part of our commitment to open standards
>
> Antti
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BVT at sns.dk [mailto:BVT at sns.dk]
> Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 11:58 PM
> To: Mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] Ermapper ECW files on Linux ?
>
>
> To the list -
>
> Is it possible for a _linux_ based Mapserver to read and show .ecw raster
> files ??
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
> Bo Thomsen
> GeoConsult I/S
>
>
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