On Nov 2, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Brady Callahan wrote:

> David's concerns are definitely valid if there is any kind of difference in 
> the components of the Vertical CS other than units. In my particular case 
> this is not so, all is same-same. 
> 
> I don't know enough about how significant digits are processed in liblas, but 
> the correct conversion from meters to ift is exactly 0.3048 meters per ift. 
> The difference in error between 3.2808399 and .3048 would be invisible at 
> typical Z values scales.

You can control the significant digits by giving las2las a --scale parameter.

> 
> For those who were interested here was the syntax I used for the conversion: 
> C:\OSGEO4w\las2las -i C:\temp\in\45123A5.las -o C:\temp\out\45123A5.las 
> --a_srs EPSG:26910 --t_srs EPSG:2992

After I implement --point-translate for 1.6.0b2, you could do 

>> C:\OSGEO4w\bin\las2las -i C:\temp\in\45123A5.las -o C:\temp\out\45123A5.las 
>> --a_srs EPSG:26910 --t_srs EPSG:2992 --point-translate "z*3.2808399"  

and the operation can happen in a single pass.  --point-translate operations 
are going to happen *after* any reprojection that might occur.

> 
> The las file was ~416mb and had 15228814 points. I used a WinXP SP2 machine 
> after installing OSGeo4W with GDAL and liblas. However, I can't seem to get 
> the same setup to work on a Win7 64-bit OS. 

OSGeo4W is definitely not win64 ready in many cases, and there are likely to be 
many issues.  It's possible that 1.6.0b2 will solve some of them, but I do not 
test on win64.

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