Re: [las_users] LAS support for feature collections in proposed CF discrete sampling geometries

[Steve Hankin <steven.c.hankin@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Upendra,

The LAS architecture will allow it to query data from a CF feature 
collection file (Discrete Geometries spec) as readily as from a 
database.  Actually simpler.  It is a matter of defining a new 
"operation" in LAS ... something that has been done many, many times.

The issue at this point is that the CF proposal isn't completely stable, 
and there isn't a population of CF files of this type to create the 
demand.  If you need to have this feature soon, then lets talk together 
and make a plan for developing the code.  Not a ton of code.  If done in 
Java (which has the most mature libraries for this data) the reading 
from CF Discrete Geometry files can likely be patterned after the 
current LAS SQL "operation" (would need to discuss this with Roland).

    - Steve

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On 4/6/2011 1:46 PM, Upendra Dadi wrote:
> Hi folks,
>    Is there any plan to have support  within LAS for feature 
> collections (defined in the proposed CF standard for discrete sampling 
> geometries)? In here, there is some aversion to spend resources on 
> setting up and maintaining a relational database to store in-situ data 
> just for LAS. Support for feature collections would make things lot 
> easier.
>
> Upendra