Mr SID in mapserver

[Jon Saints]

What is the best way to convert MrSID to GeoTiff?

is there a way to do it on linux?

Thanks
Jon



--- Frank Warmerdam <fwarmerdam at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:28:20 -0800, Jon Saints
> <saintsjd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a Mr Sid raster i would like to display in
> > mapserver. What is the best way to do that? should
> i
> > convert to another format?
>
> Jon,
>
> It is possible to download the MrSID SDK from
> Lizardtech
> and then build a GDAL using it, and then build
> MapServer
> using that GDAL.  But that is a somewhat complex
> process.
> If you don't particularly need to serve directly
> from the MrSID
> files, I would suggest just converting to GeoTIFF
> and using
> that.  Most existing binaries should support GeoTIFF
> directly.
>
> Best regards,
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