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

2010-10-18 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 17/10/2010 22:00, Jürgen E. Fischer ha scritto: Also, there are no plans (at the moment) to support ECW in GDAL = 1.7, which is bad news if you want to use QGIS = 1.6. GDAL supports ECW[1] and in turn QGIS does. It's just that it doesn't support the current SDK for legal reasons (AFAIK

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

2010-10-18 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Paolo, On Mon, 18. Oct 2010 at 09:52:17 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote: AFAICT, we are now trapped in a choice: either using gdal 1.6 with ECW support, but with the limitations above, or move to 1.7, and drop ECW support (until the licence issues are clarified/solved). Ok. Two options.

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

2010-10-18 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 18/10/2010 10:02, Jürgen E. Fischer ha scritto: Ok. Two options. I'd opt for 1.7. Should we start a poll? I would suggest: go for 1.7, and keep a legacy standalone with ECW support for the desperate addicts to that format. How does it sound? All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini:

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

2010-10-18 Thread Ramon Andinach
On 18/10/2010, at 16:02 , Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: Hi Paolo, On Mon, 18. Oct 2010 at 09:52:17 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote: AFAICT, we are now trapped in a choice: either using gdal 1.6 with ECW support, but with the limitations above, or move to 1.7, and drop ECW support (until the

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

2010-10-18 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Le 18/10/2010 10:29, Ramon Andinach a écrit : I'm not so lucky (obviously). I need ecw support. Me too. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

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

2010-10-18 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 18/10/2010 11:16, Jean-Claude Repetto ha scritto: Le 18/10/2010 10:29, Ramon Andinach a écrit : I'm not so lucky (obviously). I need ecw support. Me too. But: would it be good for you to have an 1.5 version with ECW, and 1.6 without? -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc

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

2010-10-18 Thread Agustin Lobo
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. What about designing a separate external tool that

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

2010-10-18 Thread Micha Silver
On 18/10/2010 10:15, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 18/10/2010 10:02, Jürgen E. Fischer ha scritto: Ok. Two options. I'd opt for 1.7. Should we start a poll? I would suggest: go for 1.7, and keep a legacy standalone with ECW support for the desperate addicts to that format. How does it

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

2010-10-18 Thread MORREALE Jean Roc
Le 18/10/2010 11:35, Micha Silver a écrit : On 18/10/2010 10:15, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 18/10/2010 10:02, Jürgen E. Fischer ha scritto: Ok. Two options. I'd opt for 1.7. Should we start a poll? I would suggest: go for 1.7, and keep a legacy standalone with ECW support for the desperate

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

2010-10-18 Thread Agustin Lobo
Micha, I'm also using ECW and share your concern but on the other hand who knows when ERDAS is going to take a decision or even if they are going to take a decision at all? I think that if we make a simple external program able to batch process a bunch of ECW files to convert them to another

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

2010-10-18 Thread Ramon Andinach
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.

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

2010-10-18 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 18/10/2010 11:47, Agustin Lobo ha scritto: 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.

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

2010-10-18 Thread Agustin Lobo
FWTools has too many other functionalities, I refer to something like a ecw2*, with a simple gui for windows users. The problem is the *: is there a public wavelet compressed format? Agus 2010/10/18 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it: Il 18/10/2010 11:47, Agustin Lobo ha scritto: I think

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

2010-10-18 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Le 18/10/2010 11:26, Agustin Lobo a écrit : 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. What

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

2010-10-18 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Le 18/10/2010 11:25, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : Il 18/10/2010 11:16, Jean-Claude Repetto ha scritto: Le 18/10/2010 10:29, Ramon Andinach a écrit : I'm not so lucky (obviously). I need ecw support. Me too. But: would it be good for you to have an 1.5 version with ECW, and 1.6 without?

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

2010-10-18 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 18/10/2010 12:39, Jean-Claude Repetto ha scritto: But: would it be good for you to have an 1.5 version with ECW, and 1.6 without? No, I don't want to have to use several different versions of QGIS. Jean-Claude: nobody *wants* it: it is obviously a compromise between different needs. I

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

2010-10-18 Thread MORREALE Jean Roc
Le 18/10/2010 12:43, Jean-Claude Repetto a écrit : Le 18/10/2010 11:26, Agustin Lobo a écrit : 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)

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

2010-10-18 Thread 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

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

2010-10-18 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 18/10/2010 13:04, Francesco Parisi ha scritto: 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. This can be done in QGIS 1.5 (menu Raster): that's why I suggested keeping the two versions. All the best. -- Paolo

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

2010-10-18 Thread Francesco Parisi
Paolo Cavallini wrote: This can be done in QGIS 1.5 (menu Raster): that's why I suggested keeping the two versions. All the best. to create a virtual raster? I've just tried to do it with an ecw and the gdalbuildvrt.exe has crashed. -- View this message in context:

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

2010-10-18 Thread Giovanni Manghi
to create a virtual raster? no, using gdaltranslate to obtain copies of your ecw in geotiff format. cheers -- Giovanni -- ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

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

2010-10-18 Thread Francesco Parisi
i've edit my preceding post, unfortunately also the translation fails. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/QGIS-1-5-Update-for-ECW-SID-support-crashes-tp5442247p5646685.html Sent from the qgis-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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

2010-10-18 Thread Giovanni Manghi
you probably still have a GRASS library in your osgeo3 installation that makes a few gdal tools to crash. Please try removing C:\OSGeo4W\apps\gdal-16\bin\gdalplugins\gdal_GRASS.dll cheers -- Giovanni -- On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 04:29 -0700, Francesco Parisi wrote: i've edit my preceding post,

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

2010-10-18 Thread Agustin Lobo
This is why having a single, simple, external program for the conversion is more efficient: keeping several versions of qgis or using fwtools is going to complicate the installations of many users. Shiping qgis along with a simple ecw2openjpg (in case that's the best option) would be a good

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

2010-10-18 Thread Francesco Parisi
Giovanni Manghi wrote: you probably still have a GRASS library in your osgeo3 installation that makes a few gdal tools to crash. Please try removing C:\OSGeo4W\apps\gdal-16\bin\gdalplugins\gdal_GRASS.dll time ago i've installed grass, but the qgis has been installed with the stand

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

2010-10-18 Thread Micha Silver
On 18/10/2010 13:58, Agustin Lobo wrote: This is why having a single, simple, external program for the conversion is more efficient: keeping several versions of qgis or using fwtools is going to complicate the installations of many users. Shiping qgis along with a simple ecw2openjpg (in case

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

2010-10-18 Thread Giovanni Manghi
This http://www.gaia-gis.it/raster_benchmark/ may interest you cheers -- Giovanni -- Maybe one day Jpeg2000 will get to the quality and stability of ECW. But AFAIK, the open source drivers are still pretty much alpha quality. I'd be pleased to hear that I am wrong in making that

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

2010-10-18 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Le 18/10/2010 15:44, Micha Silver a écrit : Converting compressed images back to GeoTiff means sometimes a 50X (!) increase in file size. Not only disk size is a problem, but also speed, for example when you want to display the maps at very low zoom levels. Jean-Claude

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

2010-10-18 Thread MORREALE Jean Roc
Le 18/10/2010 15:53, Jean-Claude Repetto a écrit : Le 18/10/2010 15:44, Micha Silver a écrit : Converting compressed images back to GeoTiff means sometimes a 50X (!) increase in file size. Not only disk size is a problem, but also speed, for example when you want to display the maps at very

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

2010-10-18 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Le 18/10/2010 15:59, MORREALE Jean Roc a écrit : Le 18/10/2010 15:53, Jean-Claude Repetto a écrit : Not only disk size is a problem, but also speed, for example when you want to display the maps at very low zoom levels. Jean-Claude Make tiles out of the file so just the corresponding tiles

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

2010-10-17 Thread Francesco Parisi
Giovanni Manghi wrote: This is weird: I have a 1.5 osgeo4w installation and it works just fine with ecws. You need to copy the dlls from the *old* sdk, but then it works just fine with no crashes at all. is this *old* sdk still avalable for donwnload? -- View this message in context:

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

2010-10-17 Thread Mike Toews
On 17 October 2010 05:22, Francesco Parisi frag...@altervista.org wrote: is this *old* sdk still avalable for donwnload? It's long gone. You had to have downloaded this before they pulled it from their website. Also, there are no plans (at the moment) to support ECW in GDAL = 1.7, which is bad

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

2010-10-17 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Francesco, On Sun, 17. Oct 2010 at 05:22:35 -0700, Francesco Parisi wrote: is this *old* sdk still avalable for donwnload? [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ECW [2] http://www.google.com Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf.

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

2010-10-17 Thread Francesco Parisi
Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ECW to be true some minutes ago i've found that link and so i've googled for this file: libecwj2-3.3-2006-09-06.zip that is an archive with the source code of the ECW SDK 3.3 , that archive is in effect available on filetube (1st

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

2010-10-17 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi guys, On Sun, 17. Oct 2010 at 10:31:53 -0700, Mike Toews wrote: On 17 October 2010 05:22, Francesco Parisi frag...@altervista.org wrote: is this *old* sdk still avalable for donwnload? Also, there are no plans (at the moment) to support ECW in GDAL = 1.7, which is bad news if you want

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

2010-10-17 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Francesco, On Sun, 17. Oct 2010 at 12:56:51 -0700, Francesco Parisi wrote: so i can try to use the right dlls... how much troubles to handle the ecw format with qgis in w7 If you're just after the right DLLs you take them from the standalone installer or other packages with ECW support (or

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

2010-10-16 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On my old win laptop qgis (standalone install 1.5.0, on vista) handles all the vector data I can throw at it fine. If I point it at an ecw, qgis just straight crashes. A windows dialog box appear saying qgis.exe has stopped working. Most of my rasters are ecw. Is this what yours did or is

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

2010-10-16 Thread Ramon Andinach
On 16/10/2010, at 18:52 , Giovanni Manghi wrote: On my old win laptop qgis (standalone install 1.5.0, on vista) handles all the vector data I can throw at it fine. If I point it at an ecw, qgis just straight crashes. A windows dialog box appear saying qgis.exe has stopped working. Most

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

2010-10-15 Thread Ramon Andinach
On 16/10/2010, at 24:09 , Francesco Parisi wrote: hy guys i've got the same problem, and i've tried this solution: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-gdal-ecw unfortunately it don't works for me... the solution i've found is very empirical, under my windows 7 pc i have a virtual

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

2010-10-15 Thread Francesco Parisi
i think i can correctly answer only to the 3rd question... i'm using vmplayer to work with a virtual machine with the OS windows xp sp3, with vmplayer it's also possible to mount ISO images, the guest OS recognizes them as normal DVD-ROMs, so in my case i've prepared an ISO with the all

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

2010-10-15 Thread hayamaguchi
Yesterday, reading Francesco's post, I went to the http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-gdal-ecw that he mentions, and followed the instructions. The current postings at the ERDAS site only has *.dll files for versions 8.0 and 9.0 (in the C:\Program Files (x86)\ERDAS\ERDAS ECW JPEG2000 Read

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

2010-09-20 Thread luca_manganelli
qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org scritti il 20/09/2010 10.23.17 Hi, I have just tested with gdal-trunk under Windows Seven and ecw rasters are working fine for me. Where and which version of ECW libraries have you installed? ___ Qgis-user

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

2010-09-19 Thread Brett Adams
Looks like I'm adding my name to the list of Windows 7 users on the ECW import crashes QGIS. Any progress on this? Brett -- Brett Adams Spinifex Geophysics 0438 861 974 SKYPE:brettadams_spinifex ___ Qgis-user mailing list

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

2010-08-29 Thread hayamaguchi
I also still have the same problem as the two other posters in this thread: using the QGIS 1.5 version that is supposed to have MrSID and ECW file support, and using MrSID files is no problem, but loading ECW files crashes QGIS. I have had to convert the ECW file to a different format to make it