Sid images

[R. Joe Brandon]

Frank,

I am not sure exactly how ESRI has it set up, but I am told that it 
allows the Mr.sid wavelet/raster to be layed in the image plane then vectors 
can be layed over it.  You are right that the r.in.mrsid would amount to 
nothing more than a tif image.  Viewer was a bad word for it as they already 
ship a stand alone viewer for just viewing the images (I have not checked 
lately to see if there is a Linux port of this).

R. Joe


On Thu, 6 May 1999, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> "R. Joe Brandon" wrote:
> > The bottom line is anyone up to the challenge of building a viewer for
> > GRASS?  Just check out there site and put a query into the contact, I do
> > know as of fall 98 they were interested in having folks develop a viewer
> > for GRASS.
> 
> Joe,
> 
> I have developed an OGDI driver in the past on top of the MrSID API.  The
> API is easy to use.  However, I am not sure what you mean by ``develop
> a viewer for GRASS''.  Do you mean a free standing viewer, distinct from 
> the normal monitor architecture?  Do you mean a r.in.mrsid command?  I don't
> think I would be up to a viewer, though if there is an easy way to plug
> additional image formats into the existing viewer, I might be willing to
> do that.  An r.in.mrsid command kind of misses the primary value of the
> MrSID format. 
> 
> >From what I have seen, Lizardtech put alot of restrictions on the 
> redistribution of their DLLs, but they might be OK with this purpose.  
> 
> Later,
> 
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