[gdal-dev] LAS support

[Fabian Schindler]

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Rui,

IMHO point clouds are special form of vector data. But still, an OGR
driver would not be a viable solution.

Did you have a look at PDAL (http://www.pointcloud.org/)? It is
similar to GDAL and seems to have a built-in driver for LAS files.

regards,
Fabian

On 11/28/2013 03:09 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> On 28 November 2013 13:56, Rui L. Pires <rlpires at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>
>> wrote:
>>> On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires <rlpires at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Would there be any particular reason for not supporting it?
>>> 
>>> Point cloud is not a vector, not a raster either? :-)
>> 
>> 
>> That might be debatable, but it won't be me reopening that
>> discussion. Having said that, if you could assure me that all
>> formats supported in http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html are
>> vector formats, I would have understood your point (of not
>> offering a LAS driver).
> 
> Rui,
> 
> I intentionally put question mark to indicate it's open question
> for me as well. The nature of LiDAR data might be confusing and I'm
> interested to learn more about it. Dale Lutz said, "point cloud is
> a badly behaved raster". I (used to) say, it's not a vector. But I
> still haven't found clear answer "what is it" really :)
> 
> Best regards,
> 

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