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Dave Nadler \YO\
August 21st 03, 12:15 PM
Hey Jonathan - Why don't you do the USA preprocessing and see if
Geunther and John can host the files for us unwashed masses ? And
for heavens sake get a better komputer.
See ya, Dave

"Jonathan Gere" > wrote in message
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> Until someone generates and hosts the all the U.S. tiles for SeeYou
> online, make your own:
>
> I. Get sat photos from https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl
>
> II. setfw.bat gdalinfo.exe gdalwarp.exe from OpenEV_FW_162.zip:
> Re-project and crop. GeoTiff file input / various output formats. No
> MrSid input (So get MrSid Viewer from www.lizardtech.com and export
> geotifs). Nasty DOS interface. Source and binaries available online
> (14.4 MB zip for dos package with the works)
>
> http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/index.html (see downloads and major
> doc entry points)
> http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/gdal_utilities.html
>
> To make it work in win98 I:
> 1) Edited SetFW.bat per instructions
> 2) Increased environment space in DOS window from "Auto" to 1024
> (overkill?)
> 3) Reloaded missing imagehlp.dll from win98 CD
>
> OR ELSE, NOT RECOMMENDED
>
> III. Leica ERDAS ViewFinder 2.1
> View, Re-project and output in GeoTiF format. View of MrSid did not
> seem to capture projection info, preventing re-projection. GeoTIF to
> GeoTiF reprojection and Output to file worked, but I haven't figured
> out how / whether it will crop for tile making.
>
> Windows interface, slow. No cropping - no good in my book!
>
> C:\Program Files\ERDAS\ViewFinder\help\html\ViewFinder_Main.h tm (18MB)

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