[GRASS-user] importing Mars DEM takes too long

[Anna Petrášová]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Sajid Pareeth <spareeth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Anna
>>
>> I am not sure if it is related, but I had similar issues with Sentinel JP2
>> files.
>
> .. me too, but...:
>
>> The solution was to use the ECW library to read the JP2 files instead of
>> JP2OpenJPEG/JPEG-2000 driver with OpenJPEG library.
>>
>> I had to recompile gdal to add the ECW support.
>
> I did that for some weeks, then dropped it (also because of the
> license situation and the packaging pain).
> Recent GDAL seems to be faster due to driver improvements.
>
> Anna: which GAL version do you use?
>
> Markus

GDAL 1.11.3, released 2015/09/16, from Ubuntu 16.04 packages

I wonder why QGIS was able to read it without problems? I would think
they use GDAL too?

I'll try to get the latest GDAL and test again. Thanks both of you.

Anna