
Mike Dunne, ER Mapper’s Chief Technology Officer said, “The ECW JPEG 2000 Compressor is the ideal tool for every GIS user – it is easy to use, it gives great results, it is super fast, and it is free. Larger images can be compressed with the flagship ER Mapper application or by building applications using the ECW JPEG 2000 Software Development Kit. The ECW JPEG 2000 Compressors generous 500 MB allowance means that the vast majority of an organization’s imagery compression needs are handled by this free application. Geospatial and CAD professionals use compression to reduce the size of imagery datasets, whilst still retaining the original quality.ĮR Mapper’s ECW JPEG 2000 Compressor is a stable, commercial quality tool for creating ECW and JPEG 2000 image datasets.

Perth, Australia, 10 January 2005 – The free ECW JPEG 2000 Compressor allows users to compress images of up to 500 MB in size. ER Mapper today announced that its free image compression application has been updated to output to the new JPEG 2000 compression format as well as to the industry standard ECW format.
