Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-12-05 Thread Giuseppe Amatulli
Hi, just to let you know that pktools ( http://www.nongnu.org/pktools/html/index.html) in particular pklas2img support the las file to create dem. Best -- Giuseppe Amatulli, Ph.D. Center for Earth Observation ESC Room 119A Yale University P.O. Box 208109 New Haven, CT, 06520-8109 Teaching: spatia

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-29 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 29 November 2013 18:39, Even Rouault wrote: > Le vendredi 29 novembre 2013 18:35:28, Rui L. Pires a écrit : >> On 29 November 2013 11:44, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> > On 29 November 2013 10:32, Rui L. Pires wrote: >> > > I was approaching this issue and particularly OGR as a solution for >> > >

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-29 Thread Even Rouault
Le vendredi 29 novembre 2013 18:35:28, Rui L. Pires a écrit : > On 29 November 2013 11:44, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > > On 29 November 2013 10:32, Rui L. Pires wrote: > > > I was approaching this issue and particularly OGR as a solution for > > > data conversion and reduction. I am quite fond of the

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-29 Thread Rui L. Pires
On 29 November 2013 11:44, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 29 November 2013 10:32, Rui L. Pires wrote: > > I was approaching this issue and particularly OGR as a solution for data > > conversion and reduction. I am quite fond of the functionality OGRLayer > > makes possible in a transparent way, such

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-29 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 29 November 2013 10:32, Rui L. Pires wrote: > On 28 November 2013 15:09, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> On 28 November 2013 13:56, Rui L. Pires wrote: >> > On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Would there be any part

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-29 Thread Rui L. Pires
On 28 November 2013 15:09, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 28 November 2013 13:56, Rui L. Pires wrote: > > On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > >> On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires wrote: > >> > > >> > Would there be any particular reason for not supporting it? > >> > >> Point c

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-28 Thread Joaquim Luis
IMHO point clouds are special form of vector data. But still, an OGR driver would not be a viable solution. ... or as already mentioned of rasters (or grids as I prefer to call them when they are so). By accident I found that that grids stored as XYZ in laszip are 3 times smaller than the sa

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-28 Thread Fabian Schindler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui, IMHO point clouds are special form of vector data. But still, an OGR driver would not be a viable solution. Did you have a look at PDAL (http://www.pointcloud.org/)? It is similar to GDAL and seems to have a built-in driver for LAS files. regar

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-28 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 28 November 2013 13:56, Rui L. Pires wrote: > On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires wrote: >> > >> > Would there be any particular reason for not supporting it? >> >> Point cloud is not a vector, not a raster either? :-) > > > That might b

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-28 Thread Rui L. Pires
On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Is there any interest in having LAS as one of the OGR supported formats? > > It's been discussed: > > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2011-April/028439.html >

Re: [gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-28 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is there any interest in having LAS as one of the OGR supported formats? It's been discussed: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2011-April/028439.html > Would there be any particular reason for not supporting it? Poin

[gdal-dev] LAS support

2013-11-28 Thread Rui L. Pires
Hello everyone, Is there any interest in having LAS as one of the OGR supported formats? Would there be any particular reason for not supporting it? I would be willing to collaborate on this effort, if deemed useful. Regards, Rui ___ gdal-dev mailing