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

[Ramon Andinach]

Finally got time to try this (and on my new work laptop (win7-64)).

Wow.

Thanks to Frank and Giovanni.

-ramon.

On 21/10/2010, at 17:37 , Giovanni Manghi wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> the plugin gdal17-ecw has been added by Frank W. in the osgeo4w
> installer.
> 
> Now you only need to download the ERDAS sdk, accept the licence,,
> install it, pick the redistributable dlls and copy them into system32.
> 
> After first test all works fine.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> -- Giovanni --
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 07:06 -0700, hayamaguchi wrote:
>> I am in a similar situation with Doug.  My local governments (county and
>> state) use MrSid and ECW, respectively.  I am committed to QGIS and its
>> dependence on GDAL, so I would like to encourage the GDAL and QGIS
>> developers to continue their work in obtaining support for those formats,
>> especially ECW.  Somebody mentioned a petition to ERDAS to loosen up their
>> licensing terms for v71 redistributables for OSGeo use.  That may be a great
>> starting point.  And, like Doug, I thank all of you, as a new convert to
>> QGIS, for all your outstanding, selfless work in developing the software and
>> helping newbies like myself use this wonderful product!
> 
> 
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