[Qgis-user] Compressed rasters: public domain format?

[Andrew Loughhead]

I know you have specified "public domain format", but what about ECW or 
JPEG2000, which are at least open standards? Also both formats have 
widespread commercial and academic use.

It seems that GDAL can be built with support for JPEG2000 in at least 
four different ways, and at least one of these is under an open source 
license (JasPer). It looks like both ECW and MrSID have SDKs available 
which include JPEG2000 support as well, but under various license 
conditions.  But Jasper is supposedly good for display of up to 2GiB 
images.

Perhaps someone more up to date with GDAL and JP2K than I am will have 
other information.

Andrew.


Agustin Lobo wrote:
> Is there any public domain format
> for compressed rasters, something equivalent
> to Mrsid or ecw, that can be read by QGIS through
> gdal?
> 
> Thanks