Hi Scott,
Thank you for OGC's openness to discuss ideas for reviewing standardisation of
LiDAR and other point cloud data. I have informed our LiDAR colleagues to be in
contact with you directly to discuss ideas further . It is also good to know
that there will be Standards Openness ad hoc sess
Even,
You wrote:
> The annoying thing here is that a proprietary vendor aggressively pushes his
> *closed* format and tries to undermine an open format implemented by FOSS.
Youre right. But to me the case is quite similar with respect to
undermine GeoPackage despite release announcements and OGC
Stefan,
That a proprietary vendor decides not to implement a standard in its products
is mainly its problem (as well as the one of its customers). Especially as
they are plenty of FOSS alternatives that implement the standard! So I'd say
it is a selling point for FOSS.
The annoying thing here
Dear all, dear OSGeo Board
While supporting this LAS related initiative I'd like to draw your
attention to a potentially similar use case which is at least of same
relevance:
In April 2014 Esri officially announced support for >> GeoPackage <<
vector in version 10.2.2 and raster in 10.3:
http://b
Colleagues,
I see these kind of developments also directly affecting Open Principles in Geo
Education that "Geo for All" , OSGeo, ICA all stand for and are working
together in our common mission of making geospatial education and opportunities
accessible to all.
"Geo for All" will take a stand
