[Qgis-user] Re: QGIS 1.5 Update for ECW/SID support crashes

[Francesco Parisi]

Agustin Lobo wrote:
> 
> I think that if we make a simple external program able to batch
> process a bunch of ECW files
> to convert them to another format, we would be both having a temporary
> solution and puting pressure
> on ERDAS as they will see people quiting the format.
> 
> We cannot make OSS to depend so much upon decisions taken on
> proprietary formats. I understand
> we need a compromise,
> 
> Agus 
> 
> 

I agree this solution, for two reasons:

1) In Italy the IGM cartographies are in ecw and normally they are the very
first brick of the house in my project. Moreover the ecw is the format often
used for the ortophoto, it's always possibile to georeference a jpg, but is
clear that is more conveniet a format that is already georeferenced by the
local governments.

2) in my humble honest opinion fwtools is very heavy, yesterday i've tried
to open an ecw, and it has took more than 30 min, and the GUI is
curmbersome.

So a sort of: "Batch convert ecw -> to geotiff" can be a good solution, and
maybe a plug-in is a compromise that can be agreed.
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