Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-03 Thread Scott Simmons
(note: resend to make sure this gets on the lists) Hi Stefan, I will make a few comments! GeoPackage: the OGC Compliance Program develops conformance test suites for OGC Standards after the Standards have been officially adopted. This process takes time and requires thorough testing itself.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-03 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, 2015-03-03 7:13 GMT+01:00 Even Rouault wrote: > Hi Cameron, ... > Currently there's no finalized conformance test suite available for GeoPackage > to test implementations, so there's no official reference implementation or > conformant implementations. I'd wish Scott or somebody from OGC cou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-02 Thread Michael Gerlek
The ASPRS LAS committee has been roundly criticized in the past for not operating in an open, consensus-driven, transparent manner. My personal feeling is that LAS - or any future lidar standard - is now too important a topic to be left to the ASPRS committee. The OGC model and the grass-roots,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-02 Thread Even Rouault
Hi Cameron, > It is difficult for OSGeo to stop a vendor from promoting their product, > or promoting a specific lock in strategy. Of course. That was exactly my point. > > But we can: > * Support the OGC in developing an OGC standard for LiDAR. Once a > standard is in place, there is a much st

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-02 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Even, It is difficult for OSGeo to stop a vendor from promoting their product, or promoting a specific lock in strategy. But we can: * Support the OGC in developing an OGC standard for LiDAR. Once a standard is in place, there is a much stronger reason to make use of that Open Standard. In

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

2015-03-01 Thread Paul Ramsey
Carl, No, it doesn't really clarify it. I think what people are wondering is "does OGC have a default mission and position that closed formats are bad for the industry and would it publicly admonish a member who took actions that ran counter to that position". I assume that, as a "member driven o