I should mention too that if you yourself are not in a position to sponsor the libLAS project, you can still aid the effort by asking others who might be in a position to help -- your employer, your lidar software vendor, etc.
Thanks. -mpg > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: libLAS/libPC -- looking for funding, sponsorship > > Do you use libLAS in your products, or would you if it had some additional > features you need? If so, please read on. > > > libLAS has been a success, but the world of point cloud support for geospatial > applications goes well beyond just reading and writing the LAS format -- we > want support for other formats, spatial index integration, a suite of core > command line tools, database integration, and so on. To that end, as some > of you may have already heard, the lasLAS team has begun work on "version > 2" of libLAS, known as libPC. The project goals are: > > 1. libPC is a library which provides APIs for reading, writing, and > processing point cloud data of various formats. Additionally, some > command line tools are provided. As GDAL is to 2D pixels, libPC is to > multidimensional points. > > 2. From a market perspective, libPC is "version 2" of libLAS. The actual > code base will be different, however, and the APIs will not be > compatible. > > 3. The libPC implementation has high performance, yet the API remains > flexible. We recognize that these two goals will conflict at times and > will weigh the tradeoffs pragmatically. > > 4. The architecture of a libPC-based workflow will be a pipeline of > connected stages, each stage being either a data source (such as a file > reader), a filter (such as a point thinner), or data sink (such as a > file writer). > > 5. The libPC library will be in C++, but will also include a C API and will > have SWIG bindings for languages like Python and C#. libPC will support > multiple platforms, specifically Windows, Linux, and Mac. > > 6. libPC is open source and is released under a BSD license. > > > In part with funding from a generous US govt sponsor (not sure if I should > name them, sorry), libPC development is already well underway. > > However, more development needs to happen before it can reach parity > with libLAS and start to go into production mode. To do this, of course, your > material support is needed. > > If you use libLAS today in your world -- or if you would like to, if only it had > some missing feature -- please consider helping to fund the libLAS team. > This can be done in a variety of ways: > > - "buy" open development time to further the core libPC work > - "sponsor" the team to implement a particular feature you need > - loan a member of your own development staff to the team for a specific > task > > Please contact me ([email protected]) if you're interested in supporting open > source software. > > -mpg _______________________________________________ Liblas-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/liblas-devel
