[Xastir] what format to export MrSID for xastir use?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> As much as I despise proprietary compression schemes such as MrSID
> (they make publicly-available and free data less publicly available
> due to locking the data into proprietary formats), I think there's a
> way to use MrSID from inside GDAL, or we could try to use their
> development kit directly without GDAL.  The raster portion of our
> GDAL integration isn't finished yet, so it might take a while to get
> there.

There is, available for Solaris/Sparc, Linux/Intel and MacOS (plus 
Windows)