[GRASS-user] r.in.gdal and .ecw files

[Kirk R. Wythers]

On Jul 31, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Aaron Racicot wrote:

> Your version of gdal needs to be built against the ECW SDK from
> ermapper.  Someone else who supports the binary packages will have to
> tell you how to get a version with the correct build, but if you are
> building yourself you can just:
>
> 1) Download and install the SDK from ermapper
> (http://www.ermapper.com/downloads/sdks.aspx#16)
> 2) Build gdal with the correct config option (--with-ecw)
>
> Hope that helps...

Thanks Aaron. I just re-ran my gdal config script and see saw that  
you are correct:

ECW support:               no

I also see that the free version will only read files up to 500  
megs... what a bother.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it
> [mailto:grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it] On Behalf Of Kirk R. Wythers
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:33 PM
> To: grassuser at grass.itc.it
> Subject: [GRASS-user] r.in.gdal and .ecw files
>
>
> Does anyone know if r.in.gdal reads .ecw files? According to the  
> docs it
> does (http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html). However, I am getting a
> "not recognised as a supported file format" error. If I use the -f  
> (list
> supported files option) with r.in.gdal, ecw is not listed.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Kirk
>
>
> Kirk R. Wythers, Research Fellow
> Dept. of Forest Resources
> University of Minnesota
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