[Board] Please review: Open Letter asking to avoid format fragmentation in LiDAR standards

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jorge Sanz <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 2015-04-20 14:44 GMT+02:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:
>> That would be good Maxi, as my concern is getting community feedback before
>> the Board reviews such a request.
>>
>> Has this letter been sent yet to the general OSGeo community for review?
>> (the Discuss list) I think it is great that the Standards group reviewed it,
>> maybe now it is ready for the general OSGeo community.
>>
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>
> At least it was sent to several Spanish lists by some OSGeo'ers. I
> imagine they get into it thanks to the mail sent by Cameron to the
> supporters of the previous open letter about Esri services or maybe
> other mailing lists where this is being discussed.

It has been sent out on many lists and twitter etc.

Random link about press taking it up:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/LIDAR-offenes-Dateiformat-LAS-in-Bedraengnis-2609710.html


Markus

> I had to clarify there that this letter was not still officially
> supported by the OSGeo Foundation Board and that at this moment is a
> community open letter supported by the people signing it.
>
> Best
>
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