Dear Ben,
removing MrSID format would to a large extend render gvSIG CE useless for my
applications since all the aerials of the US Agricultural service (1 m
resolution) is published in that format. It is widely used as a compressed
image form,at by many people I know. Basically the entire US aerial imagery
(which you can download for free) is in that format.
So please don't remove the driver -
yikes...
Also as background information the "very proprietary developers" of this format
are sitting here in Seattle : Lizardtech - and they are also hosting the very
open source meeting for the Cascadia user group of Geospatial open source
(CUGOS) aka Cascade Chapter of OSGEO here in Washington State USA... for the
last 4 years ... :)
Cheers
Karsten
Karsten Vennemann
Principal
Terra GIS LTD
2119 Boyer Ave E
Seattle, WA 98112
USA
www.terragis.net
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From: Frank Sokolic [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 06:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Gvsigce-community] Eliminating MrSID support
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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From: [email protected]
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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