MrSid

[Frank Warmerdam]

Thomas Chesky wrote:
> I searched the archive but could not conclude postively that I can use
> MrSid with Mapserver (via GDAL) I found articles about licensing/sdk
> contstraints, others with no such limitations. Please let me know which
> version of GDAL supports MrSid if any and what is the procedure to have
> such tiles accessible from MapServer.

Thomas,

All modern GDAL versions (eg. 1.2.0+) include the code for MrSID support.  My
understanding is that the SDK available for download from Lizardtech is also
now free (as in no cost) for decoding.  So, if you are on a platform for which
they provide the SDK and if you are willing to build stuff yourself from
source you can render MrSID images in MapServer.

Best regards,
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