[Qgis-developer] ECW!!!

[Nathan Woodrow]

Paolo,

It's not so much that you can't change it it's just there a lot of
providers here in Australia to only give ecw out. Some of these files are
big as ecws so converting them to GeoTIFF would be impractical, plus a lot
of work and data storage. JPEG2000 is another option but unless the
providers change then user wont.

Regards,
Nathan


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:

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> Il 18/03/2013 23:29, Ramon Andiñach ha scritto:
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> > It's not just up to me. It's also up to QGIS to work out what sort
> > of uptake it wants. Particularly here in Australia there is a *lot*
> > of existing ecw, for example at the first Australian QGIS forum,
> > ECW use ran at around 90%. It will make it extremely difficult to
> > show off QGIS if it can't be easily shown to handle their existing
> > data. Once we have the foot in the door then we can start the
> > weaning process.
>
> As a side note: what licence do these data have? If the licence allows
> it, why not collecting them, translating, and putting on a shared space?
> This will help users, and hopefully also push data providers to
> upgrade their offer.
> All the best.
> - --
> Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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