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

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:42:37AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> 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 apparently some move afoot (maybe even well underway) to make
an SDK that can be used to give open source code access to MrSID
files.  I would not count on that being available on all of the
platforms that Xastir can run on, though.

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