[gdal-dev] LAS format driver for OGR?

[Stefan Keller]

Hi,

Can GDAL/OGR read/write the ASPRS LAS format versions 1.0 .. 1.3
(defined here: http://liblas.org/ )?

I tried to read LIDAR data in LAS format from LAStools
(http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/ ) but without success using
gdalinfo and ogrinfo. Even the Python LAS->shapefile converter
(http://code.google.com/p/pylas/ ) failed ("TypeError...").

Scanning this mailing list I could not find an answer except to use
LAStools. But since LAS is essentially just a simple vector point data
I can't imagine why OGR should not be able to support that.

Yours, Stefan