<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi <br>After reading QGIS user archive here and <br><a href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/124794/installing-qgis-with-ecw-support-on-mac">https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/124794/installing-qgis-with-ecw-support-on-mac</a><br></div>I see that this problem of reading ecw files in QGIS has some history.<br><br></div>My latest attempt was to reinstall GDAL_Framework-2.1.3-1 and GDAL-ECW_Plugin-2.1.3-1<br>from here <a href="http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#gdal_complete">http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#gdal_complete</a><br>and I added the library "libNCSEcw.dylib" to GDAL 2.1 Libraries folder from <br>ERDAS ECW/JPEG2000 SDK 5.4 rather than 5.3 <br></div>I figured that the library file probably didn't change between 5.3 and 5.4 versions.<br><br></div>I even restarted my Mac OS X 10.11.6<br></div>restarted QGIS 2.18<br></div>opened a new project and tried to load my raster file in .ecw format<br></div>ERROR:<span style="font-weight:600"> Unsupported Data Source: </span>/Users/s432198/Dropbox/Mudgee veg/abc1.ecw is not a supported raster data source<br><br></div>This should work so I must be doing something wrong?<br><br></div>Dave<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Dave Pepper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pepdave@gmail.com" target="_blank">pepdave@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi All<br><br>update - I've made progress<br><br></div>tip: go to bottom right corner of this support home page,<br><a href="https://support.hexagonsafetyinfrastructure.com/infocenter/index?page=home" target="_blank">https://support.hexagonsafetyi<wbr>nfrastructure.com/infocenter/<wbr>index?page=home</a><br></div>to see this:<br><div><div><div class="m_6734922552311657352m_-162778023527695069gmail-sbtitle"><h1 class="m_6734922552311657352m_-162778023527695069gmail-portlet_title"><span class="m_6734922552311657352m_-162778023527695069gmail-title_left">Hexagon Geospatial</span></h1></div>
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<li><a class="m_6734922552311657352m_-162778023527695069gmail-support" href="http://download.hexagon.com/" target="_blank">Product Download Portal</a></li></ul></div>click the link to get to this page,<br><a href="https://download.hexagongeospatial.com/" target="_blank">https://download.hexagongeospa<wbr>tial.com/</a><br><br></div><div>search for ERDAS ECW JPEG2000 SDK<br></div><div>fill in the form of details<br></div><div>download the zip folder<br><br></div><div>Then follow the Readme file with the GDAL ECW Plugin from <a href="http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/archive" target="_blank">http://www.kyngchaos.com/softw<wbr>are/archive</a><br><br></div><div>So I did all that, now how do I load this external (?) plugin and use it to open a file?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Dave<br></div></font></span><div>PS thanks Luke...as you can see above I eventually got there<br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Dave Pepper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pepdave@gmail.com" target="_blank">pepdave@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>I've ploughed through the archives and read up to minute information to 2016 on ECW.</div><div><br></div><div>I reinstalled QGIS with all requirements from <a href="http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis" target="_blank">http://www.kyngchaos.com/<wbr>software/qgis</a></div><div><br></div><div>I installed ECW Plugin 2.1.1-2 from <a href="http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/archive." target="_blank">http://www.kyngchaos.com/<wbr>software/archive.</a>..</div><div>then went looking for ERDAS ECW/JPEG2000 SDK at <a href="http://download.intergraph.com/download-portal" target="_blank">http://download.intergraph.com<wbr>/download-portal</a> but that site has changed...and I explored there but could not find the SDK. Maybe things have progressed since <span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">2016-9-29 the date on the </span><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px">GDAL ECW Plugin ReadMe.</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica">So I wonder where can I now find the </span><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px">the libNCSEcw.dylib file to copy to the </span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px"> /Library/Application Support/GDAL/2.1/Libraries ?</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px">Or is there another work around so that I can open eww files in QGIS 2.18 on Mac OS X 10.11.6 ?</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px">Thanks for any tips</span></font></div><span class="m_6734922552311657352HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px">Dave</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div></font></span></div>
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