Looks like I’ve also picked up a bug. The Twittereus Notorious has caught me up – http://twitter.com/mloskot
I could blame Martin, I think, as he’s shown me with the nice #uksnow thing but I won’t ;-) Martin immediately cooled me down saying it’s gonna be short-time infection…most likely. If not, I will probably need to ask for cure refund ;-)
I’ve just spotted there is an upcoming event in March 2009 about Open Source initiatives in Mobile world: Open Source in Mobile, USA. I’ve taken a short look at the agenda and there seems to be nothing related to geospatial solutions. Nevertheless, it’s always good to see number of other FOSS-oriented foundations like GNOME, Mozilla and OSI meeting big enterprise players on the same field.
Hamish has announced a short tutorial about how to libLAS and GRASS together to process LiDAR data encoded in ASPRS LAS format:
It is actually quite a simple task, but sometimes the incantations and programs to use are not so obvious if you haven’t used the software extensively.
Indeed, I’m sure many of us will find Hamish’s writing helpful. I still have a hope to find time to instrument GRASS with libLAS support implemented as a module. Another option is to find someone who would be interested in doing it – I’m good in delegating, aren’t I? If there would be anyone, please don’t hesitate to drop a message on liblas-devel.
Today, Howard has announced new release of libLAS 1.0.1. The new version mostly brings update in Python bindings. Here is detailed report of all fixes in this milestone.
Selection of most important improvements include:
Traditionally, soruce code packages of libLAS are available – visit homepage of 1.0.1 release.
libLAS is a generic GNU autoconf/autotools project, however, and building libLAS is as simple as ./configure;make;make install.
Windows users can install libLAS from the OSGeo4W packages repository. This release contains the Python bindings, command-line utilities (including las2ogr) and development packages.