Also, we could look into adding MrSid/ECW support in gdal.input on win32 for the next release, lets see. Artem
2009/11/10 Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]> > John, > > The windows binaries do not support MrSid. I recommend installing GDAL > utilities from FWtools or OSGEO4W (which I think include MrSid > support) and then using gdal_translate to convert your sid's to > geotiffs. > > You may want to pass the -co compression options to keep the size down. > > Rendering from GeoTiff will be much faster than sid as well. > > Also, in the next mapnik release raster reading with the GDAL plugin > will be __much__ faster overall because of new support for Overviews. > > Dane > > > On Nov 10, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Jon Burgess wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:44 -0500, John Mitchell wrote: > >> I have trying to use a raster mrsid format file within my mapfile and > >> I get the following error: > >> world.sid not recognized as a supported file format in layer. > >> Below is the referred layer. > >> > >> <Layer name="raster" status="on"> > >> <StyleName>raster</StyleName> > >> <Datasource> > >> <Parameter name="type">gdal</Parameter> > >> <Parameter > >> name="file">c:/mapnik_0_6_1/world_boundaries/world.sid</Parameter> > >> <Parameter name="format">mrsid</Parameter> > >> </Datasource> > >> </Layer> > > > > Are you sure you have rebuilt gdal with the mrsid support enabled? > > This > > format is not included by default and requires a proprietary SDK. > > > > Is the mapnik gdal plugin picking up this version of gdal? > > maybe look at: ldd /path/to/gdal.input | grep gdal > > > > e.g. > > > > $ ldd /usr/local/lib64/mapnik/input/gdal.input | grep gdal > > libgdal.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libgdal.so.1 (0x00007f70337fd000) > > > > > > Jon > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mapnik-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >
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