[Mapserver-users] Tiled Tiff problem solved

[Frank Warmerdam]

John Wiley wrote:
> I heard ermapper was a go...
> 
> 
>>>>"Wim Blanken (PI)" <wim.blanken at planet.nl> 06/04/04 11:46am >>>
> 
> Hello Mapserver lovers,
> 
> We had a problem using tiled tiffs in our mapserver application. Our favourite image converter (XNVIEW) could not convert these to 8 bits tiff in batch for use in mapserver. We downloaded a trial version of PMVIEW and this package does the job perfectly so it is a nice work around. Does however anyone know an opensource package that can handle and convert tiled tiffs? (packbits compressed). Does GIMP cover this?

Wim / John,

Note that GDAL can be used to read and convert tiled TIFFs.  For that matter,
if you build MapServer with GDAL support (and not the limited built-in TIFF
support) you can use tiled tiffs directly in MapServer, often with better
performance than stripped tiffs.

Best regards,
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