[Mapserver-users] Mr SID & Mapserver

[Jim Burnett]

Yes but the problem is these Mr Sid files are 3-6gigs un-compressed into
tiff format. Linux can only handle 2 gig files.

-jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy James" <rjames57 at yahoo.com>
To: <r000t at adelphia.net>
Cc: <Mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Mr SID & Mapserver


> Hi
>
> I have been using the MrSID Viewer(www.landsystems.com,
> Lizardtech) to convert MrSid files to geotiff, than using
> the tif in mapserver.
>
> cheers
> Randy
>
> --- Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Jim Burnett wrote:
> > > Anyone have any ideas on how to integrate Mr SID with a
> > mapserver or
> > > mapscript application? Any good "on the fly" mr sid
> > converters out there?
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > I am unaware of any existing method of using MrSID
> > directly with MapServer;
> > however, Andrey Kiselev and I will be implementing MrSID
> > support in GDAL
> > (used by MapServer) over the coming four weeks.  To use
> > it you would still
> > need to license a MrSID SDK from Lizardtech.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> >
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