This looks awesome.

I'll add that Grant Brown added a freeglut-based simple viewer (lasviewer) 
based on PyOpenGL to laspy at https://github.com/grantbrown/laspy .  It needs 
quite a bit of work (addition of mouse navigation would be nice), but the fun 
part is that it's programmable in pure python. It's primary features are 
fly-through navigation and RGB/Intensity colorization.  PDAL has a 
freeglut-based simple viewer too, but both of these are simple visualization -- 
and they're not as useful as LAG appears to be.

Martin,

When can we convince you that proper source code tracking and versioned 
releases are prerequisite for people to build upon your software?  It's great 
that LASlib is LGPL, but it's frustrating that we can't refer to release 
versions, or track your changes in a revision system unless we're doing it 
ourselves manually.  Things like LAG demonstrate the need for this even more 
clearly.

Howard

On Aug 23, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Berin Smaldon wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> I was disappointed to find that the previous developer had just added a 
> function to check the filename ending for ".las" or ".LAS" to decide whether 
> a given file is a LAS file or not. I have added .laz and .LAZ for the time 
> being, and merged the changes into the testing branch, where LAG now appears 
> to load LAZ files without a single hiccup.
> 
> I should hope to change this in future.
> 
> For the meantime, anyone who wants this functionality can use git to use the 
> hotfix:
> git clone g...@github.com:arsf/lag.git
> git checkout testing
> *compile as usual*
> 
> Berin
> 
> On 23/08/12 15:08, Martin Isenburg wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Berin,
>> 
>> if you use LASlib and you can open LAS files then you can also open LAZ 
>> files as the code path is the same. It may be that your LAG file selector 
>> does not allow a *.laz ending? In this case simply test by renaming 
>> (temporarily) a *.laz file to *.las and try to open it. LASlib decides based 
>> in the content (not the ending) whether the LAS file is compressed of not.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> PS: if you use lasreadopener, then you would also BIN/SHP/QFIT/ASCII/ASC/BIL 
>> support that would get opened "as if" they were LAS files ...
>> 
> 
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