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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> very occasional user of QGIS but I quite like it.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Unfortunately QGIS does not natively display ecw images but read BIL</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">images.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The current free ER Mapper viewer</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au">ERViewer7.2Setup_20080212.exe” exports readily ecw images to BIL.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au">Not a clever solution but it works well.</SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A NAME=""><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2>Philippe Puig</FONT></SPAN></A></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2>Senior Spatial Scientist</FONT></SPAN></P>
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