Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-11-10 Thread Marco Pasetti
Micha, As for GDAL, I'd expect you will want to add the support for ECW and MrSID directly thru GDAL, not as some separate image support library. Yes, correct. Marco ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-11-10 Thread Micha Silver
Hi Marco: Marco Pasetti wrote: Hi Martin, In MrSID and ECW licenses they let developers to distribute software with MrSID/ECW libraries in binary form, so I don't see any legal problem here. Well, good to hear. The binary redistribution is in fact the key for me. That because in MS-Windows

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-11-08 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Jacolin Camptocamp created such gdal package with ECW. More information here: http://cartoweb.org/cwiki/DebianPackages I thought I would give your repo a try on my etch server but I had some problems with the pgp key: sudo gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys A37E4CF5 gpg:

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-11-07 Thread JC Notter
Hi, ... Not only in Spain, in France, IGN is working with ecw, and all orthophotos are in ecw. It's really a major drawback ! JC Agustin Lobo a écrit : Hi! Could we clarify the situation for ecw and Mrsid formats in QGIS? (and perhaps put a note somewhere in the qgis web pages). I think

[Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-10-31 Thread Agustin Lobo
Hi! Could we clarify the situation for ecw and Mrsid formats in QGIS? (and perhaps put a note somewhere in the qgis web pages). I think that not being able to read these formats is a major drawback in practice. At least in Spain, a lot of public available raster layers are in these formats.

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-10-31 Thread Micha Silver
Hi Agus: Agustin Lobo wrote: Hi! Could we clarify the situation for ecw and Mrsid formats in QGIS? (and perhaps put a note somewhere in the qgis web pages). The situation is, unfortunately, clear: The QGIS project can't allow itself to distribute software with support for formats which

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-10-31 Thread Martin Dobias
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Micha Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Agus: Agustin Lobo wrote: Hi! Could we clarify the situation for ecw and Mrsid formats in QGIS? (and perhaps put a note somewhere in the qgis web pages). The situation is, unfortunately, clear: The QGIS project

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-10-31 Thread Jacolin Yves
Hi, Le Friday 31 October 2008 13:17:48 Martin Dobias, vous avez écrit : - for linux the situation is more complicated. users usually use gdal packages from their distribution, so we would need to produce alternative packages for several distributions which would be compatible with original

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-10-31 Thread William Kyngesburye
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Tom Elwertowski wrote: GDAL provides a configure script to add GRASS support as a plugin rather then built-in. There are no configure scripts for ECW and MrSID but it should be possible to copy and modify the GRASS plugin build script. William must have either

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

2008-10-31 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Martin Dobias ha scritto: - for linux the situation is more complicated. users usually use gdal packages from their distribution, so we would need to produce alternative packages for several distributions which would be compatible with original ones. Or create qgis-with-gdal-ugly packages