[Qgis-user] MrSID raster and QGIS in linux

[Randal Hale]

There isn't - Mr Sid and ECW are proprietary image formats. If you are 
on a windows machine they get a separate library/file/gdal type plugin 
and if you are on a linux machine your just crap outta luck. I've 
actually been playing around with building sid support into gdal (which 
is another long story).

The best you can do is to decompress the image using the Sid decoder 
(downloaded from Lizardtech). Just hope you don't have an overly 
compressed sid image that blows up to 160GB on decompression.

The next best thing we could do is figure out some way to get this back 
into linux. If I had the coding chops I would do it...since I'm diving 
into fantasy currently I would also date Jennifer Lawrence.

Randy

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On 11/24/2013 11:05 AM, john polo wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using Fedora 19 on a 32 bit machine. I had installed QGIS 1.8 and 
> the GDAL packages, but was not able to use .sid rasters from the 
> geospatial gateway that the feds run. I was getting an error message 
> saying that it was not a supported raster source when I tried to load 
> the file. Is there perhaps an additional package that's not obvious to 
> a newb that would help with support for MrSID in Fedora?
>
> john
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