<div dir="ltr">Thanks Patrick for surfacing this. Yes, this should be opened up for scrutiny by the entire community and we should all weigh in.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Patrick,<br>
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Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I believe the OSGeo Board need to look into this and prepare a position paper with inputs from the community as this has wider implications. This also need to be discussed with like minded organisations. We all can provide the needed support for this.<br>
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Jeff and OSGeo Board - please add this to the next month Board meeting's agenda items. Thanks.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI<br>
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Lene Fischer<br>
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University of Copenhagen<br>
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Emne: [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI<br>
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Dear OSGEO,<br>
For what our good name is worth. . .<br>
Do we have an opinion on something so essential as an open standard for a data format?<br>
Speak now, or forever hand over your wallet. Individual and collective response encouraged.<br>
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Can OSGEO provide a short position paper commenting on our values? I.e., “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [data] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these [is Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Openness].”<br>
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The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI<br>
<a href="http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/" target="_blank">http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/</a><br>
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We are concerned about ESRI’s next moves in forcing yet another proprietary format into wide-spread deployment. Forwarded emails, retold conversations, and personal experiences suggest that sneaky tactics<<a href="http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/" target="_blank">http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/</a>> are being used to disrupt the harmony in open LiDAR formats that we have enjoyed for many years.<br>
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Thanks much,<br>
-Patrick<br>
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