@sarahdalgulls Because the ECW driver is not Free Software, full of patents, and its owners have never been open to collaboration with opensource communities over the years.

A lot of users switched to other free formats, even if they can be less efficient in terms of storage.

Note that CoG ( Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs ) are now everywhere, since they offer very good streaming capabilities despite lower compression.

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