[GRASSLIST:266] Re: ECW in GDAL

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 20 20:33:41 EST 2006


> Does anyone know how to export a raster to ECW format? I see that GDAL
> does support both reading and writing to .ECW, but I do not see it as
> one of the file types listed in the file type box. Any ideas?

your copy of gdal must be compiled with ECW support. AFAIK due to
licensing issues it is usually built without, if you want it you have to
build it yourself.


$ gdalinfo --formats

see  http://www.gdal.org/frmt_ecw.html


Hamish




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