[gdal-dev] LAS support

[Rui L. Pires]

On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:

> On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires <rlpires at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Is there any interest in having LAS as one of the OGR supported formats?
>
> It's been discussed:
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2011-April/028439.html
>

Fair enough.


> > Would there be any particular reason for not supporting it?
>
> Point cloud is not a vector, not a raster either? :-)
>

That might be debatable, but it won't be me reopening that discussion.
Having said that, if you could assure me that all formats supported in
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html are vector formats, I would have
understood your point (of not offering a LAS driver).

Regards,
Rui


On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:

> On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires <rlpires at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Is there any interest in having LAS as one of the OGR supported formats?
>
> It's been discussed:
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2011-April/028439.html
>
> > Would there be any particular reason for not supporting it?
>
> Point cloud is not a vector, not a raster either? :-)
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz  Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
>
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