GMSC Discussions

[erangr]

I cannot seem to find a documentation stating which raster types are supported to use in GMSC 2020. Can someone direct me please? 

[jan.neumann · Accepted solution]

Hi Eran,

This is what I found in the 2016 documentation (I doubt there's any change in 2020):

Supported file formats:

Tested by the Product Center:

• PNG

• TIFF

• ECW v2

• JPEG

ECW v3 is supported by GDAL 1.11.1 which is used by GMSC 2016.1

If you check the list of GDAL supported formats ( http://gdal.org/1.11/formats_list.html - Compiled by default), than you will see that GDAL supports a huge number of raster formats.

In addition the GMSC 2016 setup installs the following plugins (see [GMSC_INSTALL]\Program\Gdal\x64\plugins) .

• FITS (.fits)

• Bathymetry Attributed Grid (.bag)

• Oracle Spatial GeoRaster

• GMT Compatible netCDF

• Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5)

• Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database

• NetCDF

Please note that all these formats will not be tested by the GMSC team and we can't guarantee that any of these formats still work after a version upgrade.

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In addition to that, you can use whatever format is supported by GeoMedia / WebMap, in case of usage the WebMap integration feature. By that I mean rasters registered in the GDO Warehouse.

[erangr]

Thank you for your answer Jan. The ECW support is what I was searching for (though not sure why ECWv3 is not used natively and tested, being a proprietary format of Hexagon). But I can't wonder does GMSC 2020 (which came late 2019) supports a higher version of GDAL than 1.1 (which is quite old)? If not, does GMSC 2021 does?

[jan.neumann]

ECW v3 and GDAL 1.11.1 support was added in 2016 EP01, and 2018-later.

[jan.neumann]

As per the NuGet gallery, the version 1.11.1 was the latest stable version when the GMSC libraries were updated, which happened in later 2016.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/GDAL/

Newer GDAL version was released in 2018...