[udig-devel] Re: ImageIO-GDAL integration

[Aleksander Bandelj]

My experience is that ECW decoding is much more expensive than TIFF one. 
So, compactness yes, speed no. Fine for a single client, but not so good 
for a server ...

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Paul Ramsey ha scritto:
>> I would very much like to see an ECW driver or (even better) a JP2000 
>> driver from this project, as such a thing would be widely useful for 
>> end users.  My priority order would be: JP2000, LAN, ECW, AUX.  I 
>> assume GeoTIFF is already handled by the existing coverage work?  If 
>> not, it would go first.
>>
> Well, I second Daniele's choice since, at least here in Italy, you 
> either support
> ECW or they'll start laughing at you. Geotiff is so '90s (it has his 
> merits, but
> everybody seems to have gone nuts for ECW's speed and compactness).
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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