[Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

[Bennett, Bruce]

There seems to be a nice selection of up-to-date DRG's availiable in '.sid'
format for my area of the country. (
http://www.puc.state.oh.us/gis/topomaps.cfm )

There's a utility for decoding .sid files to GeoTiff format offered at -

http://www.lizardtech.com/download/dl_download.php?detail=geo_mrsiddecode&pl
atform=lin

and it seems to work nicely. The issue is the 80x expansion (!) that the
utility yields (my trial files were around 5-6 Mbytes as '.sid' and nearly
450 Mbytes as '.tif' images).

Does anyone just happen to be working on '.sid' support for xastir a the
moment? It would be nice to save disk space for other needs by keeping them
in compressed form...

Bruce Bennett KB8ROP
BBennett at Spang.COM
(440) 352-8600 X 3350
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