Mr SID in mapserver

[Jeff Hoffmann]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:47:42 -0800, Jon Saints <saintsjd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>What is the best way to convert MrSID to GeoTiff?
>>
>>is there a way to do it on linux?
>
>
> Jon,
>
> Well "best way" is a broad request.  I am pretty sure there
> are linux tools (or at least the SDK) available from MrSID.
> But I am not aware of any binary distributions of a translator
> package that is freely available from any other source that
> includes MrSID support.
>
> I would suggest you look into what Lizardtech has to offer.  You
> might need to do the translation on windows to use their utilities.

LizardTech does have a image converter called mrsiddecode in their SDK
that will convert from MrSid to a variety of formats (TIFF, GeoTIFF,
JPEG, etc.).  I've used the Linux version and it seems to work fine for
me.  You can download the SDK from developer.lizardtech.com.

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Jeff Hoffmann
jeff at propertykey.com