[Liblas-devel] libgeotiff / cpl / libspatialreference.hpp changes

[Frank Warmerdam]

Julien Malik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I encountered this bug, as did a lot of OrfeoToolbox users since we 
> updated to liblas 1.6.0b2.
> It affects at least Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, OpenSuse 11.2, 11.3 and OpenBSD 
> 4.8+
> I personnally use ubuntu 10.10 with gdal/geotiff from ubuntugis/unstable 
> repo, which gives me recent versions (gdal 1.7.2 and geotiff 1.2.5), and 
> it still does not work.

Julien,

Note that while these are reasonably recent, they are not current.

> So currently, gdal/geotiff support in liblas seems broken. I tested with 
> yesterday's trunk.
> 
> Just wanted to know if this problem will be addressed before the next 
> release ?
 >
> Or you will rely on the end-user to hand-modify a geotiff header (which 
> he may not have access to) ?

I will investigate if there is a cleaner mechanism of handling this
issue.  Would you like to file a ticket with liblas's trac on the
problem so we can keep track of progress?

Best regards,
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