[gdal-dev] LAS support

[Rui L. Pires]

On 29 November 2013 11:44, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:

> On 29 November 2013 10:32, Rui L. Pires <rlpires at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was approaching this issue and particularly OGR as a solution for data
> > conversion and reduction. I am quite fond of the functionality OGRLayer
> > makes possible in a transparent way, such as reprojection and spatial
> > querying.
>
> Those are valid use cases of course and I don't argue here.
> Just, since OGR is an abstraction layer and point clouds are enormous,
> I wouldn't expect high performance.
> That's why, IMHO, point clouds require dedicated toolkits (PDAL, PCL).
>

Hi Mateusz,

I understand your point regarding performance but I consider that to be a
driver issue. My point is functionality before speed.

Perhaps, you can try las2ogr to see how OGR in general will work for your
> uses.
> Besides, writing OGR driver with libLAS (or PDAL) should be feasible.
>

Indeed it is feasible. It's running fine here! ;-)

Regards,
Rui
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