On 28 November 2013 15:09, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote:
> On 28 November 2013 13:56, Rui L. Pires <rlpi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 28 November 2013 11:03, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: > >> On 28 November 2013 09:51, Rui L. Pires <rlpi...@gmail.com> 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). > > 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 :) > It's interesting you mention LiDAR, but I would like to stick to point cloud, or point data set if you will. 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. But I will have to agree this functionality may already exist elsewhere and as such there might reduced interest in offering it within the OGR API that I am so fond of. Fair enough. Regards, Rui
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