Fwd: [Liblas-devel] txt2las - psid only 1 byte?

[Howard Butler]

oops, forgot to CC the list.

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> From: Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com>
> Date: June 5, 2009 10:27:20 AM CDT
> To: Volker Wichmann <wichmann at laserdata.at>
> Subject: Re: [Liblas-devel] txt2las - psid only 1 byte?
>
>
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Volker Wichmann wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have troubles converting an ASCII file with point source ids >  
>> 254 to LAS 1.1 using the txt2las tool (version 1.2.0b3). It seems  
>> to me, that the point source id is not written as unsigned short (2  
>> bytes) but as unsigned char (1 byte) resulting psid=0. Is anybody  
>> experiencing the same problem?
>>
>
> I have filed a ticket on this item.  Please continue to track its  
> development and improvement there (register for the site if you  
> haven't already).  I have applied what I think is the fix to trunk  
> if you have opportunity to build that.
>
> http://liblas.org/ticket/139
>
>
>> PS: I obtain correct results using the old lastools txt2las from  
>> Martin Isenburg
>
> I so very wish I could make a convincing case to Martin to have him  
> base his LAStools on libLAS.  I have tried very, very hard to do so,  
> but I can't seem to make a compelling case.  It is unfortunate that  
> we maintain essentially a fork of his utilities that have different  
> capabilities than his.
>
>