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LAS Working Group - December 2025 Virtual Meeting

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 11-20-2025 03:51 PM
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Please join the ASPRS LAS Working Group (LWG) as we engage with the community on how to implement the changes introduced by LAS 1.5. More info on the LAS specification here: LAS ASPRS

RE: LWG meeting next week! (Nov 20 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 11-20-2025 03:47 PM
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Thanks to Darrick, Matt, Howard, Nick, and Barry for attending this month's meeting. The recording link is now available. Topics covered: Evon working with ASPRS on getting a new permanent hosting location for the LAS spec PDFs. Evon to follow up with HQ on getting the lasformat.org site to forward ...

LWG meeting next week! (Nov 20 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 11-13-2025 03:48 PM
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The November 2025 LWG meeting is scheduled for next Thursday 11/20 at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST. Zoom info is on the event page and repeated below at the end of this post. The group will review public engagement with OGC, USGS, ASPRS, and other entities regarding the publication of LAS 1.5 while revising ...

RE: LWG meeting next week! (Oct 16 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 10-24-2025 07:55 PM
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I forgot to mention that LAZ is also out for public comment as an OGC Community Standard! Please consider reviewing for your own applications and providing comments: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/open-geospatial-consortium_openstandards-geospatial-pointcloud-activity-7381242535320608768-IL-G/ Comments ...

RE: LWG meeting next week! (Oct 16 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 10-24-2025 07:46 PM
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The recording for October's meeting is available here: (link) Thanks to Darrick, Howard, Jochen, and Matt for joining us! In this meeting we discussed plans for updating the OGC version of the LAS specification (https://www.ogc.org/standards/las/), the future of the HTML version of the specification ...

LWG meeting next week! (Oct 16 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 10-09-2025 02:06 PM
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The October 2025 LWG meeting is scheduled for next Thursday 10/16 at 11:00am PDT / 2:00pm EDT. Zoom info is on the event page and repeated below at the end of this post. The group will review public engagement with OGC, USGS, ASPRS, and other entities regarding the publication of LAS 1.5 while revising ...

RE: LWG meeting next week! (Sept 18 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 09-22-2025 12:58 PM
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Thanks to the group for a good meeting this month! In attendance included Barry Miller, Howard Butler, Jessica Shoffner, Matt Bethel, and me. Topics covered: LAS 1.5 and LAS 1.4 R16 have been published! Here are some links for accessing the final PDFs: ASPRS-hosted links: Direct link to LAS ...

LWG meeting next week! (Sept 18 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 09-09-2025 01:10 PM
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The September 2025 LWG meeting is scheduled for next Thursday 9/18 at 11:00am PDT / 2:00pm EDT. Zoom info is on the event page and repeated below at the end of this post. I will provide an update on the status of the FINAL publication of LAS 1.4 Revision 16 and LAS 1.5, both of which are now LIVE! ...

RE: LWG meeting next week! (Aug 21 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 08-25-2025 06:06 PM
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The final pull requests for LAS 1.5 have been merged: Deprecation of the legacy Classification Lookup VLR: https://github.com/ASPRSorg/LAS/pull/163 Consolidating the CRS VLR descriptions: https://github.com/ASPRSorg/LAS/pull/165 I noticed that item 1 hadn't made it into the final draft ...

RE: LWG meeting next week! (Aug 21 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 08-21-2025 06:44 PM
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Small but mighty group today! Thanks to those able to join us today despite a busy summer: Jinha, Howard, Colin, and Barry. Today we wrapped up the final revision to LAS 1.5, which was consolidating the WKT CRS descriptions from three sections to two as outlined in this pull request: https://gi ...

RE: LWG meeting next week! (Aug 21 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 08-14-2025 12:45 PM
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Apologies... my original message included a copy-paste error in the body text. The LWG is NOT today (8/14), but rather next Thursday (8/21) as stated in the subject line. Sorry for any confusion. ------------------------------ Evon Silvia Solutions Architect NV5 Geospatial Corvallis OR --- ...

LWG meeting next week! (Aug 21 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 08-12-2025 03:14 PM
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The July 2025 LWG meeting is scheduled for TOMORROW Thursday 7/17 next Thursday 8/21 at 11:00am PDT / 2:00pm EDT. Zoom info is on the event page and repeated below at the end of this post. I expect to provide an update on the LAS 1.4 R16 draft and review the public comments on the LAS 1.5 draft. ...

RE: LWG meeting TOMORROW (July 17 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 07-30-2025 02:26 PM
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The recording for the July 2025 meeting is available here. We had a great meeting last month, wrapping up nearly all of the edits from the public comment period of LAS 1.5. Many of the edits are annotated here: https://github.com/ASPRSorg/LAS/issues/162#issuecomment-3085105492 See you again ...

RE: LWG meeting next week! (Jun 19 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 07-16-2025 01:54 PM
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Thanks Howard for running the meeting in my unexpected absence last month! Here's a link to the brief recording. Here are my updates in written form: 1. LAS 1.4 R16 has been submitted to the ASPRS board for final approval. 2. LAS 1.5 edits from public comment period are underway. I'm (still) ...

LWG meeting TOMORROW (July 17 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 07-16-2025 01:47 PM
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Apologies for the late reminder... The July 2025 LWG meeting is scheduled for TOMORROW Thursday 7/17 at 11:00am PDT / 2:00pm EDT. Zoom info is on the event page and repeated below at the end of this post. I expect to provide an update on the LAS 1.4 R16 draft and review the public comments on the LAS ...

LWG meeting next week! (Jun 19 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 06-10-2025 01:02 PM
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The June 2025 LWG meeting is scheduled for next Thursday 6/19 at 11:00am PDT / 2:00pm EDT. Zoom info is on the event page and repeated below at the end of this post. I expect to provide an update on the LAS 1.4 R16 draft and review the public comments on the LAS 1.5 draft. Here is a link to the ...

RE: LAS 1.4 Revision 16 ready for public comment!

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 06-09-2025 05:35 PM
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I have submitted the above draft PDF to the ASPRS board for final approval! I'll update this thread as soon as I know when/if it'll be approved for final publication. ------------------------------ Evon Silvia Solutions Architect NV5 Geospatial Corvallis OR ------------------------------

RE: LAS 1.4 Revision 16 ready for public comment!

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 05-16-2025 01:17 PM
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The public comment period for Revision 16 of the LAS 1.4 specification has now ended. A few small changes have been incorporated into the "v3/final" draft as a result of the public comment period: "Code" formatting now correctly uses the courier font. Reduced font size from 12pt to 11pt ...

RE: LWG meeting today! (May 15 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 05-16-2025 12:33 PM
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The recording for yesterday's quick meeting is now available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/g05nQuiKuABhiQbvnOmAJcDFj3yS8ANWFCH0St3Jtd1A7EYAiQQFYbPYV16OL4vA.eXIqW3cADvb6ySNG?startTime=1747331991000&pwd=-6agemFJiDNiaoegpGmabOukrDBzjfNA Topics covered: Final draft of LAS 1.4 R16 to ...

LWG meeting today! (May 15 2025)

Posted By Mr. Evon P. Silvia, PLS 05-15-2025 12:34 PM
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Apologies for the late notice... I thought I had scheduled this post. The May 2025 LWG meeting is TODAY, Thursday 5/15 at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST. Zoom info is on the event page and repeated below at the end of this post. I expect to review public comments on the LAS 1.4 R16 draft and LAS 1.5 draft, ...