[Liblas-devel] Plans for libLAS 1.3

[Howard Butler]

All,

This is a note to let you know some of the plans for 1.3's  
development.  Some of these items will definitely be implemented,  
while others are just hopes at this point.  If you have an opinion on  
something, please speak up!

- An Oracle Point Cloud utility, las2oci, that can write LAS files  
into OPCs.
- Boost linkage
   -- for help with thread support for the reader
   -- for program option parsing
   -- for shared_ptr
- Reading strategies (choose between trading for cpu/memory)
- More C++ adapter work
- Rewriting the utilities into C++ and discard their direct port of  
LAStools (they are troublesome to maintain currently)
- More documentation, using Sphinx to manage it, similar to the  
MapServer website http://mapserver.org/docs
- A new utility, lasvalid, that will attempt to validate a 1.0/1.1/1.2  
LAS file and tell you what might be wrong with it.  This will be  
something more than the '-c' option of lasinfo.  It will have options  
to validate header value domains, point value domains, and file layout.

Do you have any ideas for libLAS 1.3?  Hope to contribute patches?   
Let us know what you think!

Howard