On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Stuart Edwards wrote: > > 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 ....
that's not really much better. What needs to happen is for someone to write some code in GRASS that utilizes libLAS directly. Surely a manpower/desire thing. Howard_______________________________________________ Liblas-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/liblas-devel
