[Freegis-list] How view ECW file under linux?

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:19:30PM +1000, Andrew Hallam wrote:
> Hi Maurizio,
> 
> To my knowledge, you cannot view ECW files on Linux. There are 
> decompression libraries for Windows and Solaris only.
> 
> Regards
> Andrew Hallam
> 
> Digital Earth Pty Ltd
> http://www.digitalearth.com.au

Some month ago I have written to that company, they
promised to publish a ECW-Linux SDK in 2003 (first half!).
Perhaps some more people should ask them.

So we'll see...

Regards
Markus Neteler
 
> 
> 
> --On Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:18 +0200 Maurizio Napolitano wrote:
> 
> > What application i can use to view a ECW file under Linux?
> > I know that ECW are supported by gdal library, but only for the Windows
> > version (so, i think, Grass and OpenEV are'nt good in this case).
> >