On Mar 4, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Howard Butler wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:29 AM, francesco wrote: > >> I use GRASS quite a lot, but always thought that it would be slow on vector >> points. I know Brovelli and her team developed some modules, I'll check on >> that. Good idea to use LibLAS as "driver" to turn LAS to xyz. > > It would be much, much, much faster if someone wrote some glue between libLAS > and GRASS (proposed here quite a while ago, but still not done > <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2008-May/037687.html>). I would > guess it would be an order of magnitude faster to ingest data if you didn't > have to go through text formats to do it.
This may be possible since Liblas has a las2ogr tool and GRASS uses ogr for vector input - seems there's an opportunity to script output from the former and pipe it as input to v.in.ogr ? Beyond my skills unfortunately .... Stu _______________________________________________ Liblas-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/liblas-devel
