On 12/6/06, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 The USDA makes aerial photography available for many counties in United
States. You can acquire a natural color mosaic for most of these counties
for $50.00.


 We recently discovered that these mosaics are only made available in
MrSID format. The mosaics are very large files and you need to purchase
LizardTech's GeoExpress or other commercial software to "cut" up the MrSID
images into more manageable chunks.


I think it's a shame that the files are in a proprietary format, but
LizardTech does at least offer a free "MrSID Decode" program that will
extract slices from them into JPEG or TIFF format.  You can get it from
http://www.lizardtech.com/download/dl_options.php?page=tools

Eric
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