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

[William Kyngesburye]

Unfortunately I have yet to get the ECW SDK to work on OS X.  You  
need the current 3.3 version for Tiger/GCC 4 support, I think.   
Supposedly reading will work, but I can't even get that to work.   
Writing has threading issues.  I patiently wait...

But, the free version should be able to read any size images.  Maybe  
the older versions were limited to 500MB.  The licensing was changed  
recently for a more open source-friendly free version.

On Jul 31, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

>
> 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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