[GRASSLIST:1772] Re: Raster Image Support

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:41:04AM +1200, Andrew Pealing wrote:
> > Does GRASS support MrSID format raster images?
> > 
> > If not, does anyone know if there is any work in progress to add
> > support for MrSID?
> 
> In general, GRASS isn't set up to utilize external file formats.  If you
> want to bug Lizard Tech about writing an import utility for GRASS, maybe
> it would happen.  Somehow, I doubt support will ever occur given the
> propietary/patented nature of the MrSID file format.
> 

Maybe interesting for you: A page dealing with data import into GRASS 5:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/gdp/html_grass5/
 -> Data Import into GRASS

If you look at "r.in.gdal" listed there, it supports many formats (but not
the restricted MrSID).

Regards

 Markus Neteler