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On 11/01/2010 10:40, Kivit, Hubert wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
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for the reply
Micha, but my point is that I would like to see this instruction VERY
CLOSE TO,
or even preferably being part of, the install page of QGis. You can’t
expect from the moderate user that he/she digs deeply into mail groups,
forums
etc. to solve the problem, especially when the install page states that
ECW and
SID are supported.</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">QGIS can support *lots*
of data formats that are not immediately available unless you install
some other library. Not to mention that many plugins also require some
python packages that need to be installed separately. Adding specific
instructions for all (or even some) of these external packages would be
a daunting task! I suppose that's what guided the web site authors
when they omitted the details regarding ecw and mrsid. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Admittedly ecw and
mrsid are very popular and often requested. Perhaps someone handling
the website will agree to put a link to ecw and mrsid instructions on
the install page...</p>
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Micha Silver [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:micha@arava.co.il">mailto:micha@arava.co.il</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Verzonden:</span></b> Monday,
January 11,
2010 8:52 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aan:</span></b> Kivit, Hubert<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">CC:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Onderwerp:</span></b> Re:
[Qgis-user] install
from OSGeo4W with ECW & MrSID support</span></font></p>
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size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 11/01/2010 09:40, Kivit,
Hubert wrote: </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">I posted this
message on the forum, but as
no one reacted, I give it a try here…</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-GB">it took me
quite a while to find out why I couldn't use ECW, JP2 and MrSID images
with
OSGEO4W-installed QGis on Windows. According to the download page
support for
these formats is included. For MrSID and MrSid-JP2000 it appeared that
I needed
to manually add the Gdal-16 MrSid-plugin (through the advanced install
- libs
section). From there I also added the Gdal-16 ECW plugin, but I still
wasn't
able to load these images into QGis. In the QGis user archives
(september 2009)
I found a topic on this, from which I learned that I needed 4 Erdas SDK
libraries and put them in the windows system 32 directory. At last I
was able
to do what I had been done with standalone-installed QGis right from
the start:
load my ECW and SID-files.<br>
So my question is: is it possible to give a somewhat more comprehensive
explanation on this subject on the install page?</span></font></p>
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size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Does this page cover the issue:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.qgis.org/wiki/OSGeo4wSetup">http://www.qgis.org/wiki/OSGeo4wSetup</a><br>
(second hit on Google for "ecw mrsid qgis windows"<br>
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Regards,<br>
Micha<br>
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Kivit</span></font></p>
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