<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Rosa and list;<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 9:17 AM Micha Silver via Qgis-user <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4780297017279966714">
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<p><font size="4">I think you made the right decision. Compiling
gdal means recompiling most of the spatial applications on your
computer. That's is a very deep rabbit hole that you want to
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<p><font size="4">Unfortunately, for reasons that were explained
some years ago on the list, ecw support is built into the
Windows binaries, but not for Linux. So for Linux users there
are only 2 options: either get the data in an open format, or
fire up a windows VM and install the OSGeo4W version of QGIS and
gdal just for converting the ecw files to something else. <br></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Rosa, you may wish to try the supposedly free ECW → TIFF online converter at <a href="http://anyconv.com">anyconv.com</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>I have no personal experience with this tool nor relationship to the providers etc etc.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4780297017279966714"><div style="direction:ltr"><p><font size="4">
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<div>On 26/09/2022 14:31, Rosa Lago via
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<blockquote type="cite">Thank you
all
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I am trying to obtain supported format (I have already installed
gdal used by QGIS, and do not want to have problems later if we
change the gdal's installation).
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Regards
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Rosa.
</blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote><div>[stuff deleted] <br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com<br><br>C'est ma façon de parler.</div></div></div>