[gdal-dev] LAS format driver for OGR?

[Mateusz Loskot]

Stefan Keller wrote:
> 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...").

Some time ago I have written a tool to dump LAS data to virtually
any OGR dataset:

http://liblas.org/utilities/las2ogr.html

> 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

Considering point clouds in terms of (only) a simple vector point data is
a misunderstanding.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net