[Liblas-devel] reading shapefile within liblas

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 14 March 2017 at 07:17, Stephane Poirier <stephane.poirier at oifii.org> wrote:
>
> I successfully compiled liblas with HAVE_GDAL and successfully ran
> las2ogr.cpp
>
> Now, on addition to that, I want to integrate code that will read a
> shapefile.
>
> Is there a demo for reading shapefile within liblas gdal/ogr?

las2ogr is a very primitive utility with merely 4-5 parameters.
It is not fully-fledged ogr2ogr variant with LAS support,
that would allow you to use OGR SQL etc.

Use las2ogr.cpp demo to write your own bespoke utility.
Or, switch to PDAL or laspy if you prefer scripting environment.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net