What is the difference between .sid and .pam?
- Extension
- .sid
- .pam
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Extensis
- Bryan Henderson
- 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.
- The PAM image format is a lowest common denominator 2 dimensional map format. It is designed to be used for any of myriad kinds of graphics, but can theoretically be used for any kind of data that is arranged as a two dimensional rectangular array.
- MIME Type
- image/x-mrsid
- image/x-portable-arbitrarymap[3]
- Sample
- sample.sid
- sample.pam
- Wikipedia
- .sid on Wikipedia
- .pam on Wikipedia