Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EWW file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert EWW to another file type
To convert EWW files to another format, you need ERDAS IMAGINE or other GIS software.
Convert a file to EWW
To convert other file formats to the "Coordinate Sidecar File" file type, you need software like ERDAS IMAGINE or a similar tool.
About EWW files
The .eww extension serves two distinct, technical purposes. Most commonly (83%), it is an ECW World File, a tiny plain-text sidecar used in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) like ERDAS IMAGINE and QGIS. It contains exactly six lines of mathematical coordinates that act as an anchor, telling the software where to position the accompanying ECW satellite or aerial image on a map. Crucial Constraint: This file contains no image data. Users often try to convert this file to JPG or PNG and fail because it is merely a text reference; you must convert the actual ECW file instead. The second use case (12%) is an IAR Embedded Workbench Workspace, an XML-based container used by IAR Systems to organize multiple embedded C/C++ projects (Project Management). These files are highly proprietary and version-sensitive. To view the contents of either format without specialized software, the best workflow is to convert or rename them to TXT or XML.
Convert.Guru analyzes your EWW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert EWW file to HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY, RB or PL, you can use ERDAS IMAGINE or similar software from the "GIS Coordinate Reference" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to EWW, try ERDAS IMAGINE or another comparable tool in the "GIS Coordinate Reference" category.
The EWW Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our EWW converter.