[Qgis-user] Opening ECW files in QGIS 3.22, Ubuntu 20

[chris hermansen]

Rosa and list;

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 9:17 AM Micha Silver via Qgis-user <
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> I think you made the right decision. Compiling gdal means recompiling most
> of the spatial applications on your computer. That's is a very deep rabbit
> hole that you want to avoid if possible.
>
>
> Unfortunately, for reasons that were explained some years ago on the list,
> ecw support is built into the Windows binaries, but not for Linux. So for
> Linux users there are only 2 options: either get the data in an open
> format, or fire up a windows VM and install the OSGeo4W version of QGIS and
> gdal just for converting the ecw files to something else.
>

Rosa, you may wish to try the supposedly free ECW → TIFF online converter
at anyconv.com

I have no personal experience with this tool nor relationship to the
providers etc etc.

>
>
> On 26/09/2022 14:31, Rosa Lago via Qgis-user wrote:
>
> Thank you all
>
> I am trying to obtain supported format (I have already installed gdal used
> by QGIS, and do not want to have problems later if we change the gdal's
> installation).
>
> Regards
>
> Rosa.
>
>
> [stuff deleted]


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