[Mapserver-users] mrSID

[Lowther, David W]

Frank,

Is this a new development? Are there instructions out there for building
GDAL with MrSid support?

David Lowther
Software Engineer
GEO Information Systems
University of Oklahoma
dlowther at ou.edu
(405) 325-3131
http://www.geo.ou.edu




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 7:56 AM
> To: Bruno Luis
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] mrSID
> 
> 
> Bruno Luis wrote:
> > I was wondering... does MapServer support mrSID images?
> 
> Bruno,
> 
> The GDAL library (you would need a CVS snapshot) does not 
> support the MrSID format ... if you have a licensed copy of 
> the MrSID library when you build it. When GDAL is built this 
> way, it can be used with MapServer to images from MrSID quite 
> effectively.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
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