[Java-collab] LIDAR Data

[Landon Blake]

Awesome!!!

I'll wait until after this weekend to peek at your code. I really
appreciate your help with this.

Landon

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:33 AM, andrea antonello
<andrea.antonello at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Landon,
>
>
>> How would you feel about sharing your modified LAS code with me? Can
>> you release it under an open source license?
>
> I will be very happy to share it (actually I though I had already
> through the jgrasstools project) and it will definitely be GPL.
> You will have to wait until the weekend, since I am abroad these days
> and quite busy on teh job.
>
>> I'd like to start using it and want to contribute improvements if I can.
>
> Would be amazing!
>
>> Are you comfortable with me setting the code up as an OSGeo Labs
>> project or a Geotools module.
>
> Whichever you prefer. Currently it is a module that produces a
> geotools featurecollection from LAS data, which was ok for my usecase,
> but I agree that it might have performance issues for some uses.
>
> I will be very happy to chat about it,
> Cheers,
> Andrea
>
>
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:31 PM, andrea antonello
>> <andrea.antonello at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Landon,
>>> actually the solution is really near to you :)
>>>
>>> The Italian project "adb toolbox" created a set of tools for ... openjump :)
>>> In that code there is a las-reader.
>>>
>>> A couple of years ago I looked into the code. It was developed in a
>>> non-so-community-friendly mode. It took me a while to find the code
>>> and there it wasn't really documented (few comments and if, in
>>> Italian).
>>> Anyways there was a LasReader in the package, so you might want to check.
>>> We had some problems with reading the data for our project, so we had
>>> to tweak it a bit following the specs.
>>>
>>> So, in short (finally :)):
>>> - hmepage: http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/GN/adbtoolbox.php?lan=en
>>> - sourcecode seems to be pretty accessible these days (you will have
>>> to register)
>>>
>>> If you have problems with the libs, get back to me. I thought my
>>> modified code had been pubblished in the jgrasstools project but I
>>> don't seem to find it. I will surely add it soon.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andrea
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Landon Blake
>>> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Java Code Slingers:
>>>>
>>>> My company is starting to work with more and more LIDAR data. I've
>>>> tinkered with libLAS and LASTools, but both are written in C and there
>>>> are some licensing restrictions on some parts of LASTools.
>>>>
>>>> A Google search for "Java LIDAR Library" pulled up some source code I
>>>> though was from gvSIG.
>>>>
>>>> Does gvSIG have the ability to read/write LAS files? If so, where
>>>> might I find the latest code and contribute to the development of the
>>>> library? (Hopefully someone from gvSIG is on this mailing list.)
>>>>
>>>> Is there interest in working together on a low-level Java library for
>>>> LIDAR data? Is this something we could do as part of GeoTools?
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to not reinvent the wheel, and I know I'm going to need LIDAR
>>>> tools for OpenJUMP. I'm hoping this is a change to work together.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps there is already a great open source Java library for LIDAR
>>>> that I don't know about. :]
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what is out there, and what the level of interest is on a
>>>> jointly developed LIDAR library and tool framework.
>>>>
>>>> Landon
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