[Liblas-devel] Updating header information when writing a .laz file

[Peder Axensten]

Maybe I've missed something, but liblas doesn't seem to update the header information when closing a file it has been writing to. 

So I have created a class that handles this in its destructor. The problem is that although it works on uncompressed (.las) files, this corrupts compressed (.laz) files. I guess that supplying a header with the correct information already when creating the file would work, but usually the info (e.g. bounding box, number of points by return) is not available then. 

Are there any plans to make liblas update the header information 'automagically'?
Is the issue with corrupt .laz files known?

I've tried it on 1.7.0b2 and on the latest (this morning) from git.

Best regards,

Peder Axensten
Research engineer

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Dept. of Forest Resource Management
Forest Remote Sensing