[Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

[JC Notter]

Hi,

... Not only in Spain, in France, IGN is working with ecw, and all 
orthophotos are in ecw.

It's really a major drawback !

JC

Agustin Lobo a écrit :
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Could we clarify the situation for ecw and Mrsid
> formats in QGIS? (and perhaps put a note
> somewhere in the qgis web pages).
> 
> I think that not being
> able to read these formats is a major drawback
> in practice. At least in Spain, a lot of public
> available raster layers are in these formats.
> Also, for example, the imagery at
> https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/
> (I know the original landsat images for those
> are available in not compressed formats, but
> that site is very convenient for many people)
> 
> If there is a compiled version of gdal including
> support for these formats, why QGIS cannot? In any
> case, is there any workaround so that users can get
> to have ecw/Mrsid support out of their compiled version?
> Perhaps through a plugin?
> 
> I really think that the final QGIS1.0 should be able to read in
> those formats, somehow. This is probably seen as a minor concern for 
> developers, but a significant problem for users.
> 
> Agus