Hi Ben,
The national mapping agency here in South Africa still releases aerial photos
in MrSID format so we pretty much have to have MrSID support in the GIS
software we use. What are the chances of keeping MrSID support but as an
extension so that it can be installed if needed?
Frank.
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Sent:2011-08-26 16:43:02
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Subject: [Gvsigce-community] Eliminating MrSID support
Dear all,
I am currently reviewing the state of raster
driver support under gvSIG CE. Basically, we
have two proprietary drives:
ECW and MrSID. I would like to get rid of
the separate driver libraries for both of them.
It is (probably) possible to merge ECW into
GDAL (this is the open source driver collection
that also has GeoTIFF, ArcInfo raster, etc.).
But MrSID is a binary-only distribution and
a very shoddy one, too. So my question is:
Is there any actual use for MrSID? Personally,
I have never come across this format and unless
someone has a really compelling reason to keep
this driver around, I will simply remove it
from gvSIG CE.
Cheers,
Ben
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