[Geomoose-users] 2008 FSA Air Photo

[Dan Little]

This makes me miss GeoTIFF.... sigh...



----- Original Message ----
> From: "Fischer, Brian" <bfischer at houstoneng.com>
> To: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>; Jim Klassen <Jim.Klassen at ci.stpaul.mn.us>; MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us; geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:18:23 AM
> Subject: RE: [Geomoose-users] 2008 FSA Air Photo
> 
> I usually use Blue Marble Desktop for all my conversions, but their
> software was having problems with the format as well.  This is the
> response I got back from them.
> 
> "To update you regarding the JP2 which causes the Blue Marble Desktop to
> crash, we use ECW for our JP2 support. The ECW toolkit is having an
> issue with this specific file because it is internally "tiled". This
> image also crashes when the Developers attempt to open it in ERMapper's
> Viewer. We would like to send your image to ERMapper to look at, but
> will not do so without your permission. We hope to resolve any issues
> with viewing this particular JP2 image for the next release of the Blue
> Marble Desktop. Please allow us to send your data to ERMapper. Thank you
> and looking forward to your response."
> 
> -Brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Little [mailto:danlittle at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:00 AM
> To: Jim Klassen; MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us; Fischer, Brian;
> geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] 2008 FSA Air Photo
> 
> 
> Is there anychance there is some software that could convert this to a
> JPEG2000? According to a few google searches, GraphicConverter can deal
> with JP2 files.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Jim Klassen 
> > To: MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us; bfischer at houstoneng.com;
> geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:42:14 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] 2008 FSA Air Photo
> > 
> > For some reason I feel the need to give a more complete answer. First,
> if you 
> > are using MS4W and you don't know how/feel like rebuilding mapserver
> and it's 
> > dependancies from source, then Brian's answer stands.
> > 
> > GDAL does support some JP2 files through the libjasper library. Others
> can be 
> > supported by the MrSID, ECW, or Kakadu drivers but these options
> require third 
> > party libraries which have licensing terms which could be a problem
> for mass 
> > distribution under MS4W.
> > 
> > 
> > >>> "Fischer, Brian" 02/10/09 12:19 PM >>>
> > I asked the MS4W mailing list about this a while back and the response
> > that I got back is GDAL does not support the JP2 format those aerial
> > photos are being published in.  So the answer is no.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Brian Fischer
> > 
> > Houston Engineering, Inc.
> > 
> > Maple Grove, MN
> > 
> > (763) 493-4522
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: Mark Volz [mailto:MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:52 AM
> > To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Geomoose-users] 2008 FSA Air Photo
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Has anyone been able to get Geomoose / Mapserver to work with the jp2
> > files directly?  I would like to be able to use our 2008 air photos on
> > remote machines that do not have access to the WMS server.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Mark Volz
> > 
> > GIS Specialist
> > 
> > Lyon County, MN
> > 
> > (507) 532-8218
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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