[gdal-dev] LAS format?

[Howard Butler]

Jonathan,

OGR does not currently support reading/writing LAS data, but there are  
some activities in the works toward moving that direction.  Mateusz  
Loskot, Phil Vachon, and myself are currently working on developing a  
LAS library with the intent that an OGR driver will be built atop it http://liblas.org 
.  The work builds on a library by Martin Isenburg that supports  
reading and writing LAS data.  We are working on reengineering it to  
use stl streams for i/o, add C and Python APIs, and architect things  
with an eye toward supporting LAS 2.0 if that insane specification  
actually sees the light of day.

Perry has a good synopsis and short term approach described on his  
weblog at http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=38

As far as lobbying for inclusion, money and/or development time are  
the most effective persuasive instruments :)  My goal is to have an  
OGR driver by the end of the year, however.

Howard

On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

> Does OGR have any support for the LAS Lidar format?  If not, how do  
> I go about lobbying for the inclusion?  Its a fairly  
> straightforward, binary encoded set of x,y,z points.
>
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