Serving MrSidd images

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 12/8/05, Lawrence Hartpence <hartpence_gis at co.jasper.ia.us> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am very new to MapServer.  I wanted to add a set of tiled images in MrSidd
> format to my map.  I have a shapefile depicting the locations of the tiles.
> I understand that I need GDAL to make this happen.  I loaded MapServer using
> the MS4W download.  Do I have GDAL?  If I do, how do I use it.  Also I am
> running MapServer on a Windows 2000 server machine with IIS as the
> webserver.

Lawrence,

You do need GDAL, but more importantly you need a
GDAL built with MrSID support which I don't believe is
included in the stock MS4W builds.

I *think* I wrote an email a few months ago to the MS4W
list about a MrSID plugin that was compatible with
a particular version of MS4W, but even for that you still
need to download the MrSID DLLs directly from
Lizardtech.

MrSID tends not to get built into stuff because
their SDK has somewhat unnerving rules about
redistribution.

The other option is to pay someone like DM Solutions
or me to prepare a custom build with MrSID support.
Of course, you can also do it yourself if you are fairly
savvy about building software from source, but I realize
that is not everyone forte.

Best regards,
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