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What is an SDW file? GIS file created for MrSID .SID raster images; contains georeferencing information that maps the raster image data in the SID file to real-world coordinates; contains the units of measurement for the image pixels as well as the coordinates of the upper-left hand pixel.

More Information SDW files are saved in a plain text format and may be viewed with a text editor.

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.SDW File Extension

2 file types use the .sdw file extension.

MrSID World File

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What is an SDW file?

GIS file created for MrSID .SID raster images; contains georeferencing information that maps the raster image data in the SID file to real-world coordinates; contains the units of measurement for the image pixels as well as the coordinates of the upper-left hand pixel.

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SDW files are saved in a plain text format and may be viewed with a text editor.

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Programs that open or reference SDW files

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ESRI ArcGIS for Desktop

Free Trial

Blue Marble Geographics Global Mapper

Free Trial

GDAL

Free

Category: GIS Files

Updated: January 12, 2015

StarOffice Writer Text Document

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Text document created with StarOffice Writer 5.0 or earlier (also known as "StarWriter"); the word processor included with Sun Microsystem's StarOffice suite; may also be opened with the Apache OpenOffice Writer program.

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StarWriter documents created with StarOffice 6 or later use the .SXW extension.

NOTE: Apache OpenOffice was formerly known as OpenOffice.org.

Programs that open SDW files

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OpenOffice Writer

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LibreOffice

Free

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OpenOffice Writer

Free

Planamesa NeoOffice

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Discontinued

Paid

LibreOffice

Free

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OpenOffice Writer

Free

LibreOffice

Free

Category: Text Files

Updated: July 26, 2013

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What is an SDW file?↓
GIS file created for MrSID .SID raster images; contains georeferencing information that maps the raster image data in the SID file to real-world coordinates; contains the units of measurement for the image pixels as well as the coordinates of the upper-left hand pixel.

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