Mr SID in mapserver

[Jon Saints]

I found the link to the download page for the utility
to convert MrSID to Tiff, geoTiff, jpeg etc.

http://www.lizardtech.com/download/dl_options.php?page=tools

Thanks
Jon


--- Jeff Hoffmann <jeff at PROPERTYKEY.COM> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Jeff Hoffmann
> jeff at propertykey.com
>