On 29 November 2013 11:44, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29 November 2013 10:32, Rui L. Pires <[email protected]> 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 as reprojection and spatial > > querying. > > Those are valid use cases of course and I don't argue here. > Just, since OGR is an abstraction layer and point clouds are enormous, > I wouldn't expect high performance. > That's why, IMHO, point clouds require dedicated toolkits (PDAL, PCL). > Hi Mateusz, I understand your point regarding performance but I consider that to be a driver issue. My point is functionality before speed. Perhaps, you can try las2ogr to see how OGR in general will work for your > uses. > Besides, writing OGR driver with libLAS (or PDAL) should be feasible. > Indeed it is feasible. It's running fine here! ;-) Regards, Rui
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