<DIV>Frank,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks. </DIV>
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<DIV>I found the SDK download at <A href="http://developer.lizardtech.com/data/download/downloads.asp#redhat">http://developer.lizardtech.com/data/download/downloads.asp#redhat</A> with free registration.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'll give it a try.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@POBOX.COM></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Thomas Chesky wrote:<BR>> I searched the archive but could not conclude postively that I can use<BR>> MrSid with Mapserver (via GDAL) I found articles about licensing/sdk<BR>> contstraints, others with no such limitations. Please let me know which<BR>> version of GDAL supports MrSid if any and what is the procedure to have<BR>> such tiles accessible from MapServer.<BR><BR>Thomas,<BR><BR>All modern GDAL versions (eg. 1.2.0+) include the code for MrSID support. My<BR>understanding is that the SDK available for download from Lizardtech is also<BR>now free (as in no cost) for decoding. So, if you are on a platform for which<BR>they provide the SDK and if you are willing to build stuff yourself from<BR>source you can render MrSID images in MapServer.<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR>--<BR>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<BR>I set the
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