Thanks Howard, I appreciate the perspective. > "oh a nice simple binary format, I can write code for that."
Heh - yes indeed this is an attractive pit. Cheers, Mike. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Howard Butler <hobu....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Michael Sumner wrote: >> >> BTW, I don't want this example to be seen as some kind of snub to the >> efforts of projects like liblas, I'm really interested in the fact >> that it *can* be done - not necessarily pushing that it should be >> done. The impetus here was really my interest in alternative methods, >> not just avoiding dependencies. > > I didn't take it as a snub, but rather I was firing back with a warning at > how deep this LAS rabbit hole actually goes :) After first reading the spec, > I thought, "oh a nice simple binary format, I can write code for that." It > seems everyone else thought the same as well, and we all came back with > different answers. Over time, I hope the bigger vendors pick up libLAS > internally (one or two large commercial vendors and a number of mid-level > ones now use libLAS), so the variations in data start to go away. I've given > them every possible reason to take it up too -- BSD license, loads of > features, multiple APIs, multiple platforms, not slow. > > _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
