[Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:31:20PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <shadow at dementia.org> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> >
> >>GDAL might be able to link against a MrSID SDK, which would mean it would
> >>come along for free with GDAL raster support, but I'd still like to find a
> >>free format with good compression to use instead.
> >
> >As a matter of fact you can do the MrSID stuff with GDAL.  I'm on
> >the GDAL mailing list and I think you might be too Derrick.
> 
> I am. I noticed someone complaining about MrSID breaking gdal_translate 
> like 3 inbox messages ago :)
> 

That person hadn't installed the SDK's DLL on his Windows system properly.

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