R: [Qgis-user] ecw files

[Evert Groenewald]

David Fawcett het geskryf:
> Hmmmm....
>
> Are there any work arounds, like a downloadable pluggin?
>
> It looks like gvSIG may support .ecw.  I will have a look there too.
> I need to quickly find a solution for some field staff.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David.
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:59 AM,  <marco.pasetti at alice.it> wrote:
>   
>> ECW support is not available in qgis (and also GRASS) for Windows native.
>> There's a problem with its license (of ECW) about binary redistribution,
>> that is not clearly permitted nor compatible with both GRASS qnd QGIS
>> licenses.
>>
>> Marco
>> ________________________________
>> Da: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org per conto di David Fawcett
>> Inviato: lun 09/06/2008 17.55
>> A: qgis-user
>> Oggetto: [Qgis-user] ecw files
>>
>> I am running QGIS 0.10.0 on Windows and trying to get a large .ecw
>> file to load.  Based on the documentation, it appears as though QGIS
>> should support .ecw files.
>>
>> When I try to load the file, I get a warning dialog that says that the
>> file 'is not a supported raster data source'.  gdalinfo is able to
>> open it up using the 'ECW/ERMapper Compressed Wavelets' driver.
>>
>> Granted, this is a giant image (~27gb), but if it was a size issue, I
>> would expect a crash instead of the warning.   Maybe I am just used to
>> the expensive, proprietary stuff ; /
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David.
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I think you should try FWTools as it can open .ecw files.

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