[Liblas-devel] LAS 1.3 point support working for upcoming libLAS 1.6

Howard Butler hobu.inc at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 15:53:41 EDT 2010


On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Mike Grant wrote:

> I just got
> an email back where they say the issue is that they've used 5 longs
> rather than 7 in the "Number of points by return" field.  If they're
> correct, that might throw off later values in the header / mess up
> reading compliant LAS 1.3 files.

aha!  That would explain why I could read it.  I wasn't accounting for them changing the size of that array from 1.2 -> 1.3.  (that sucks, btw).

Your file is properly broken now :)

Howard



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