What is the difference between .sid and .bmp?
- Name
- MrSID Image
- Bitmap Image
- Extension
- .sid
- .bmp
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Extensis
- Microsoft
- Description
- Image created using Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) compression, which was developed by Extensis for compressing large images; commonly used to partition and store large Geographic Information Systems (GIS) images.
- A BMP file is an uncompressed raster image comprised of a rectangular grid of pixels. It contains a file header (bitmap identifier, file size, width, height, color options, and bitmap data starting point) and bitmap pixels, each with a different color.
- MIME Type
- image/x-mrsid
- image/bmp
- Sample
- sample.sid
- sample.bmp
- Wikipedia
- .sid on Wikipedia
- .bmp on Wikipedia