[Liblas-devel] LAS SHP Viewer

[Volker Wichmann]

Hi,

SAGA can display shapesfiles and point clouds as overlays only in 2D map 
views. But there is also a 3D point cloud viewer module, which could be 
extended to also show shapefiles.

SAGA reads and writes shapefiles natively, for LAS files modules that 
use liblas for import/export to/from SAGA's point cloud format exist.

Best regards,
Volker

Am 25.08.2010 21:22, schrieb Etienne Bellemare Racine:
>   Hi Michael,
>
> Depending of the way you want to visualize your data and the kind of
> shapefile you have, maybe SAGA <http://www.saga-gis.org/en/index.html>
> could be a good choice. Otherwise, I find that Fusion/LDV
> <http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/fusion/fusionlatest.html> is a good 3D
> las visualizer but I'm not sure about viewing 3D shapefile. There is
> also GRASS <http://grass.osgeo.org/> that allows to load both formats
> (using liblas I think). If your data isn't too huge and you plan to
> program something, maybe you could do that in R
> <http://www.r-project.org/> as there is an OpenGL binding that could be
> used for 3D and multiples shapefiles readers
> <http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html>. However, for reading
> las in R, you could write a liblas binding :-) or I know or use this
> other initiative <http://staff.acecrc.org.au/%7Emdsumner/las/readLAS.R>.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Etienne
>
>
>
> Le 2010-08-25 13:38, Black, Michael (IS) a écrit :
>> Does anybody know a decent combined LAS and SHP viewer?
>> All the stuff I've found is too clunky to just view both types of
>> files easily (like instantiating it from a command line 'view data.las
>> data.shp').
>> I have tried Mars Explorer and PointVue.
>> I'm about ready to write my own. If anybody has source for a decent
>> LAS Viewer I can add SHP files to it.
>> Michael D. Black
>> Senior Scientist
>> Advanced Analytics Directorate
>> Northrop Grumman Information Systems
>>
>>
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