[Liblas-devel] Drivers

[Mike Grant]

On 19/02/10 02:47, Howard Butler wrote:
> If there were such a library -- a GDAL for point cloud data -- and it
> were called something other that libLAS, would they come?

Certainly we'd be interested in porting our codebase to it - being
easily able to read multiple point cloud formats with a single generic
interface is compelling.

On a related note, I recently came across
http://code.google.com/p/lidarformat/  I've only browsed the codebase
briefly and my French is only so-so, but it looks less generic than a
point-cloud GDAL would be.

Mateusz has a good point about keeping liblas clean, and it would allow
greater design flexibility if you don't need to consider the existing
interfaces.  I imagine there'd be sufficiently close linkage between the
projects that you'd be able to interest most of the existing liblas
community too.

Cheers,

Mike.

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