[mapserver-users] MrSid

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From: Ben Logan <ben at wblogan.net>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] MrSid


> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:26:14PM -0600, John Hagstrand wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a MrSid file I want to display as a layer in MapServer.  Does
anyone
> > have an interface to do that?
>
> I'm new to Mapserver and don't know whether there is a Mapserver
> interface or not--it would be very cool if there is.  In the mean
> time...
>
> The MrSid Viewer is available for free download from the LizardTech
> website (http://www.lizardtech.com).  The Windows version has the
> ability to export the whole MrSID file or a portion of it as GeoTIFF
> or, I think, TIFF with world files.  If you use Linux (as I do) I
> suggest downloading the Windows version and running it under Wine.  At
> least that worked well for me.  The Unix version of the MrSID viewer
> doesn't have as many features and you can only save the currently
> viewed region. :-(
>
> BTW, there seem to be several different flavors of the viewer for the
> Windows platform.  The one you want is the Standalone Viewer and the
> download is 6+ Mb.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ben
>
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