[Mapserver-users] Mr SID & Mapserver

[Jim Burnett]

How do I split my larg Mr Sid file? I cant un-compress it in Linux because
of the 2 gig limitation.
So how would I split it ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy James" <rjames57 at yahoo.com>
To: "Jim Burnett" <r000t at adelphia.net>
Cc: <Mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Mr SID & Mapserver


> Hi
>
> I have 20 gigs geotiffs broken into 160mb files and than
> tiled using the gdal tools; to handle large my tif files.
> But i'm not displaying all the tiles at once just when
> zooming in  (they turn on at 1:150,000) and for query
> results.
>
> Cheers
> Randy
>
> --- Jim Burnett <r000t at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > Yes but the problem is these Mr Sid files are 3-6gigs
> > un-compressed into
> > tiff format. Linux can only handle 2 gig files.
> >
> > -jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Randy James" <rjames57 at yahoo.com>
> > To: <r000t at adelphia.net>
> > Cc: <Mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Mr SID & Mapserver
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have been using the MrSID Viewer(www.landsystems.com,
> > > Lizardtech) to convert MrSid files to geotiff, than
> > using
> > > the tif in mapserver.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > Randy
> > >
> > > --- Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > > Jim Burnett wrote:
> > > > > Anyone have any ideas on how to integrate Mr SID
> > with a
> > > > mapserver or
> > > > > mapscript application? Any good "on the fly" mr sid
> > > > converters out there?
> > > >
> > > > Jim,
> > > >
> > > > I am unaware of any existing method of using MrSID
> > > > directly with MapServer;
> > > > however, Andrey Kiselev and I will be implementing
> > MrSID
> > > > support in GDAL
> > > > (used by MapServer) over the coming four weeks.  To
> > use
> > > > it you would still
> > > > need to license a MrSID SDK from Lizardtech.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > --
> > > >
> > >
> >
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> > Warmerdam,
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> > > >
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