[Xastir] ECW Compression

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Curt Mills wrote:

> On 14 Oct 2004, Ron Perry wrote:
>
>> Is ther any plans to support maps in the ecw format?  The are some nice
>> maps about in ecw format here VK.
>
> The answer is yes, eventually.  The GDAL library supports it in a
> limited fashion:
>
>    http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/formats_list.html
>
> so we will probably support it at some point as well.  Xastir GDAL
> support (raster library) support is not implemented yet.  I don't
> believe it is currently being worked on.

No Linux SDK for ECW yet, only Solaris, MacOS and Windows. So, presumably 
only Solaris and MacOS (maybe) could do it now.