Thanks for clearing that up Frank ! <br>I will try to convert my image as you suggest, do you have any suggestions of the format to use ? I have the experience when I try to convert my image (±258mb) that it just blows up the size of the image into gigabytes...Thanks for helping out !
<br><br>Steven<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2007 4:39 PM, Frank Warmerdam <<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Steven De Vriendt wrote:<br>> Hi list,<br>><br>> I have installed gdal-bin using the synaptic manager in ubuntu feisty. Yet,<br>> when I try to use gdalinfo on my sid-file, I get a format unsupported
<br>> message.<br>> How can activate mrsid support ?<br><br></div></div>Steven,<br><br>It is in theory possible to build the GDAL MrSID driver as a plugin and use<br>it with your installed GDAL. But this is tricky, and it will only work if
<br>there is a MrSID DSDK available that is compatible with the OS/architecture<br>and compiler version your GDAL is built for. If you want to pursue that<br>path ... good luck.<br><br>Alternatively, you could install FWTools and just use it for the specific
<br>translation of the mrsid's into something more generally useful.<br><br> <a href="http://fwtools.maptools.org/" target="_blank">http://fwtools.maptools.org/</a><br><br>Because the MrSID DSDK is proprietary software, provided only in
<br>pre-compiled format it is challenging to offer it in free software<br>distributions.<br><br>Best regards,<br><font color="#888888">--<br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>
I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | <a href="http://pobox.com/%7Ewarmerdam" target="_blank">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
</a><br>and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, <a href="http://osgeo.org" target="_blank">http://osgeo.org</a><br><br></font></blockquote></div><br>