[Board] Open Letter to ASPRS, Esri and OGC related to fragmentation of the LiDAR Open Format

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Jack,

I'm approaching you on behalf of the Open Source Geospatial Community, to present an Open Letter to Esri. [1]

It starts:
We, the undersigned, are concerned that the current interoperability between LiDAR applications, through use of the open "LAS" format, is being threatened by ESRI's introduction and promotion of an alternative "Optimized LAS" proprietary format. This is of great concern given that fragmentation of the LAS format will reduce interoperability between applications and organisations, and introduce vendor lock-in.

Could you please reply to confirm that you have received this email and that you will look into it. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Kind regards,

Suchith Anand
Founder, GeoForAll
http://www.geoforall.org

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter



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