[GRASS-user] ECW data

[Mars Sjoden]

Thanks William,

Good to know.

I'll keep digging.

Mars


On 16-Jul-07, at 7:06 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> Normally you would use GDAL compiled with the ECW library support.
>
> BUT, I can't get it to work on OSX.  It always gives me invalid  
> image errors, and others have the same problem so it's not just  
> me.  I've asked ERmapper (uh, Leica) about it, but they only  
> officially support 10.3.9 PPC, which is not usable on 10.4 because  
> of C++ compiler version differences.  I've asked in their forums  
> for any user/programmers that could help, but no response.
>
> Strangely enough, GraphicConverter uses the ECW library and works,  
> I think it uses different library calls to read them.  But GC loses  
> the geographic info, and it doesn't handle large files very well.   
> Because it works in GC, I also have a bug report for GDAL, but also  
> no action on it yet.
>
> On Jul 16, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Mars Sjoden wrote:
>
>> 	Hello,
>>
>> I'm just wondering what the best way to import a 3.5GB .ecw file  
>> into GRASS is?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Mars
>
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