[Liblas-devel] Re: Converting LAS files to OGR (.shp)

[Howard Butler]

las2ogr 1.2.1 is available from OSGeo4W.

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/

Howard

On Nov 26, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

> James Broadley wrote:
>> I'm a forest management tutor in New Zealand - we've just been given 
>> some sample LiDAR data in LAS format - and I need to convert that to
>> OGR (vector) data in Shapefile format
>> 
>> I have no scripting experience at all - I have downloaded your 
>> las2ogr.txt file - I have installed Python 2.6.4 & I imagine I would 
>> need to put your example script into Python somehow ?
> 
> las2ogr is not a script, it is a C++ program:
> http://liblas.org/browser/apps/las2ogr.cpp
> 
> You've probably downloaded las2ogr.txt file which is a doc/manual:
> http://liblas.org/browser/doc/las2ogr.txt
> 
> You will need to build libLAS with GDAL/OGR support, then you can
> build las2ogr.cpp program.
> 
> If you provide me with some details about OS and compiler you have
> available, I could try to provide you with further instructions.
> 
> ps. consider subscribing/sending to
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> 
> ps2. I added Howard Butler to CC, perhaps Howard could release las2ogr
> binaries for Windows packaged with OSGeo4W.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
> Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org