[Liblas-devel] liblas and gdal

[Mateusz Loskot]

creta kano wrote:
> The use case for liblas and gdal is that gdal would be able to read,
> write, and subset las files in its native format.  Gdal should be
> able to also read and write metadata from a las file.  Gdal should be
> be able to convert a las file to gridded coverage such as geotiff to
> support a preview of the data.

Sophia,

Thank you for these specification.
In near future, there is a plan to implement libLAS driver for GDAL.

In the meantime, we've started implementation of simple utility -
las2ogr based on Matthew Perry's pylas.py script

http://liblas.org/browser/trunk/apps/las2ogr.cpp

This program will provide users with ability to do following:

1. Convert LAS file to Shapefile
2. Interpolate cloud of points stored in Shapefile to raster
    using gdal_grid (http://gdal.org/gdal_grid.html)

I understand this is not exactly what you are describing, but I think it
might be somewhat helpful.

All your comments are very in place and will help us to implement these
feature. Howard is away for a few days, but I'm sure he will reply with
more detailed plan when he is back.

Greetings
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net