[Liblas-devel] DebianGIS packaging; license

[Hamish]

Hamish:
> > - Any news or ideas on OGR integration?

Martin Vales wrote:
> Hoby and mateus (liblas main developers) i believe they work directly
> in that libraries and they plan add GDAL support to liblas.

I was wondering more about liblas support within GDAL, not the other way
around.


> > - My current plans for liblas is to use las2txt to pipe data directly
> > into the GRASS GIS r.in.xyz module*, I think that's a trivial task. So
> > far that module has worked very well for very large ascii xyz datasets
> > (92GB LIDAR data file, 2.4 billion data points; statistically binned
> > raster surface in 4.5hrs) Now folks ask to use it directly with LAS
> > data....
> > [*] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.in.xyz.html
> 
> In this list we have to Roberto Antolin who develop the lidar tools in
> grass.

Right. His work was on the v.lidar.* vector modules; I work on the raster
modules.


> I believe implementation of liblas in grass is a task of GRASS
> developers not the debian gis developers (only my opinion).

I do a bit of both, but my role is primarily a grass dev.


regards,
Hamish