Loading ECW data

[antti siukola]

Thanks for your reply!

I also have to install the ER mappers ECW JPEG2000 SDK and then
compile GDAL against it, am I right? And after that GDAL should work
smoothly with ECW's. I'll try that.

Cheers

Antti S

On 8/7/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> antti siukola wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm using raster image in ecw format and when loading it from
> > mapserver I get this error: Warning: [MapServer Error]: drawEPP():
> > file.ecw is not an EPPL file. After surfing around I found that in
> > some point mapserver gave this error when ever it was unable to load
> > an image but can't tell if it's a problem anymore.
> >
> > I've used two tricks to load it: as a plain ecw and with a tab-file
> > My map-file looks like this:
>
> Antti,
>
> The .tab file aspect definitely won't work with GDAL.  The ECW will if
> you have ECW support built in.  Try running gdalinfo against the ecw file
> or doing "gdalinfo --format ecw" to check if the ecw driver is available
> in your build.  If not, mapserver will fall through to trying the file as
> EPPL and give the report you see.
>
> Best regards,
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