[Mapserver-users] Can binary release of MapServer 4.0 for Windows able to manage ECW raster files?

[Mario Servin]

Dear Yewondwossen,
    Thanks for your answer. I follow your suggestion and could successfully
display ECW files .After my experience I must set some points about
MapServer and ECW files:
1- It's official: binary release of MapServer version 4.0 DOES NOT SUPPORT
ECW input files. You are absolutely right, I downloaded version 4.1 from the
site you suggest me and I could display my ECW input files.
2- I was not without some additional effort. : ECW input files DO NOT USE
ANY WORLD FILE. So, if you (as I had) use ECW files not themselves
georeferenced you will be in troubles, the file is displayed but not in the
right place you want. Fortunately there is a free tool from ErMapper (ECW
Header Editor
http://www.ermapper.com/download_new/download_view.aspx?PRODUCT_VERSION_ID=192)
for modifying the header of an ECW file. With this tool we can make the file
a self georeferenced ECW file and then it is possible to use it as other
raster input files.
    Again thanks a lot and regards,
                                                Mario

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yewondwossen Assefa" <assefa at dmsolutions.ca>
To: "Mario Servin" <mservin at tecnoaccion.com.ar>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Can binary release of MapServer 4.0 for
Windows able to manage ECW raster files?


You can download the latest version 4.1-dev that includes support for
ECW at
http://www.maptools.org/php_mapscript/index.phtml?page=downloads.html.

  I have just tried it and was able to display ECW test files.

Best Regards,

Mario Servin wrote:

> Hi everybody. I am using   MapServer 4.0 and was able to manage shape and
> gif input formats. I failed to generate a layer with a ECW input file.
More
> surprisingly I got no error. I just get a blank image!!!. I downloaded
> MapServer 4.0 binary realase but still i am not sure if it is prepared for
> managing this input format as the documentation I found did not refer to
> this version. If it (as I guess) can not manage ECW files, can anybody
poitn
> me to a binary version for Windows that can? Thanks in advance.
> By the way here's my .map file, still it is possible I am missing
something:
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME DEMO
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 600 600
> EXTENT 160597.5 6402017.5 500004 6682201
> UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "Bariloche"
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>
> # you may need to change this to match your MapServer build
> IMAGETYPE GIF
>
> #
> # Start of web interface definition (including WMS enabling metadata)
> #
> WEB
>   HEADER demo_header.html
>   TEMPLATE demo.html
>   FOOTER demo_footer.html
>   MINSCALE 1
>   MAXSCALE 16000000000
>   IMAGEPATH "set in demo_init.html"
>   IMAGEURL "set in demo_init.html"
>   METADATA
>     WMS_TITLE "UMN MapServer Itasca Demo"
>     WMS_ABSTRACT "This is the UMN MapServer demonstration application for
> Itasca County located in north central Minnesota."
>     WMS_ACCESSCONSTRAINTS none
>
>     # change this value to match your setup
>     WMS_ONLINERESOURCE "http://mariolaptop/MyPages/itasca/demo_init.html"
>
>     WMS_SRS "EPSG:26915"
>   END
> END
>
> #
> # Start of legend
> #
> LEGEND
>   KEYSIZE 18 12
>   LABEL
>     TYPE BITMAP
>     SIZE MEDIUM
>     COLOR 0 0 89
>   END
>   STATUS ON
> END
>
> #
> # Start of scalebar
> #
> SCALEBAR
>   IMAGECOLOR 0 0 0
>   LABEL
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>     SIZE MEDIUM
>   END
>   STYLE 1
>   SIZE 300 10
>   COLOR 255 255 255
>   UNITS KILOMETERS
>   INTERVALS 5
>   TRANSPARENT TRUE
>   STATUS TRUE
> END
>
> #
> # Start of symbol definitions (we're only using a few)
> #
> SYMBOL
>   NAME 'circle'
>   TYPE ELLIPSE
>   POINTS 1 1 END
>   FILLED TRUE
> END
>
> #Satelital
> LAYER
>       NAME "S21301"
>       DATA S21301.ecw
>       TYPE RASTER
>       STATUS DEFAULT
> END
>
>
> END
>
>
>
>
>
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