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<p class="MsoNormal">I have noticed a slight inconsistency between the docs and the functionality of las.writer and now wondering which one is wrong.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On <a href="http://www.pdal.io/stages/writers.las.html">http://www.pdal.io/stages/writers.las.html</a> it says that the default value of the option minor_version is 3, but in reality when you do a ‘pdal translate’ without specifying any
options you get a las/laz file with format version 1.2. The source code confirms this in line 69 of io\las\LasWriter.cpp:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">m_minorVersion.setDefault(2);<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s a minor detail, just wondering if the docs or the code needs to be changed. Was it the intention to write las-files with minor_version=3? I’ll do a pull request with a fix once I know if the docs or the code is correct. Personally
I think that the default minor_version should be 3, as it says in the docs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#004080">Kristian Evers</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#004080">
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Geophysicist</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#004080"><br>
Geographical references</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> <u><span style="color:blue"><br>
</span></u></span><span lang="DA" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:kreve@gst.dk"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:blue">kreve@gst.dk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#004080"><br>
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Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate<br>
Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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