-----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. regards, Fabian On 11/28/2013 03:09 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 28 November 2013 13:56, Rui L. Pires <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Would there be any particular reason for not supporting it? >>> >>> Point cloud is not a vector, not a raster either? :-) >> >> >> That might be debatable, but it won't be me reopening that >> discussion. Having said that, if you could assure me that all >> formats supported in http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html are >> vector formats, I would have understood your point (of not >> offering a LAS driver). > > Rui, > > I intentionally put question mark to indicate it's open question > for me as well. The nature of LiDAR data might be confusing and I'm > interested to learn more about it. Dale Lutz said, "point cloud is > a badly behaved raster". I (used to) say, it's not a vector. But I > still haven't found clear answer "what is it" really :) > > Best regards, > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSl0+2AAoJEJoaok7HgajKZkkH/jZ/zxIjsth8OTcDEWFMmaP4 Szn2fL8oGRWnjtM0XRlRWxG1HHJ6o0ZrggjSnEa1DFr98RzXftv0ruknyj99ns5K dBAdmksXlxGBz4KKdF609TFTgVgT9HyTObuNiqIxklyi8rN/XZBk+mfpQZpNBU3W /IdXkrvBDWTYAh6YOWfXN+XQkeLpwfRsYk6m+UZRXSzYJdQrphsuUtXQrWJnoE68 9GDDZGgzyBlYiAXYt4nr0rNzvt367J7gXJd8h8Nyrgc3A+btyOjOZ1Jjs06TZGuE ecM1F9wYARglZ+w6H865asGiJ4r54E2xpakMjgvwD5KTRrNZu6RbE31Tn1hI1ho= =+UCc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
