[talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

[David Bannon]

Ah, thats good news Paul. Back when I was using it (the ECW library or
SDK) you got the C code under a restrictive license (fair enough) from
ER Mapper. But they withdrew that and said it would be re-released as a
Windows only precompiled module. No use to Linux user....

All a long time ago, glad the situation has improved.

David


On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 15:36 -0800, Paul Norman wrote:
> > From: David Bannon [mailto:dbannon at internode.on.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps
> > 
> > Then the license holder withdrew the ecw plugin for GDAL...
> 
> There's still an ECW plugin for GDAL. It requires the third-party
> SDK and you'll have to compile gdal yourself, which is annoying. Creating
> ECW files is what takes purchasing a license. If there's ECW files
> where it would be beneficial to host them, I could do or someone else 
> could.
> 
> We'd have to get confirmation that data source was happy with attribution 
> in accordance with ODbL sections 4.2 and 4.3 which are "keep intact any 
> copyright or Database Right notices" or "a notice associated with the 
> Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses, views, 
> accesses, interacts with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work 
> aware that Content was obtained from the [the datasource]"
>