[mapserver-users] MrSid

[Stephen Woodbridge]

FYI,

There is no native support for MrSid in mapserver. 
Search the archives for "MrSid" for more info. 

-Steve

John Hagstrand wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion, Ben.  However, correct if I'm wrong, the
> GeoTIFF format is not multi-res like MrSid.
> John
> 
> At 07:48 PM 4/6/2002, you wrote:
> >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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