On 18/10/2010, at 17:26 , Agustin Lobo wrote: > Unfortunately, having to deal with ECW is not a matter of being maniacs > of proprietary formats but of many useful free geoinformation provided in > ECW format. Actually, not having ECW (or mrsid) support can be a cause > of not using qgis at all.
This is precisely my problem. Too much of the available imagery that I use is available only as ECW. Not being able to view ecw data would drive me away from a program that I've only just discovered and am really enjoying using. > What about designing a separate external tool that would use gdal 1.6 > for a fast conversion > of ECW to a fully gdal 1.7 supported compressed format? This would be > a temporary solution while > gdal finds a better solution for ECW support (best) or while ECW is > dropped by producers > of public geodata. I could however live with this. Painful, but I could work with this. -ramon._______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
