**************************************************************** shp2las: Converts from points from ESRI's Shapefile to LAS/LAZ/ASCII format given the input contains Points or MultiPoints (that is any of the shape types 1,11,21,8,18,28). Allows adding a VLR to the header with projection information. Please license from martin.isenburg@rapidlasso.com to use shp2las commercially. For updates check the website or join the LAStools mailing list. http://lastools.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/lastools/ http://twitter.com/lastools/ http://facebook.com/lastools/ http://linkedin.com/groups?gid=4408378 Martin @lastools **************************************************************** example usage: >> shp2las lidar.shp converts the ESRI's Shapefile 'lidar.shp' to the LAS file 'lidar.las' >> shp2las -compress lidar.shp converts 'lidar.shp' to the compressed LAZ file 'lidar.laz' >> shp2las -set_scale 0.001 0.001 0.001 -i lidar.shp -o lidar.las converts 'lidar.shp' to the LAS file 'lidar.las' with the specified scale >> shp2las -i lidar.shp -o lidar.laz -set_offset 500000 4000000 converts 'lidar.shp' to the compressed LAZ file 'lidar.laz' with the specified offsey >> shp2las -i lidar.shp -o lidar.las -v converts 'lidar.shp' to the LAS file 'lidar.las' and outputs some of the header information found in the SHP file C:\lastools\bin>shp2las -h Supported LAS Outputs -o lidar.las -o lidar.laz -o xyzta.txt -oparse xyzta (on-the-fly to ASCII) -olas -olaz -otxt (specify format) -stdout (pipe to stdout) -nil (pipe to NULL) usage: shp2las -i lidar.shp shp2las -i lidar.shp -compress shp2las -i lidar.shp -o lidar.las -utm 12S shp2las -set_offset 500000 4000000 -ishp -o lidar.laz < lidar.shp shp2las -set_scale 0.001 0.001 0.001 0 lidar.shp lidar.las shp2las -h --------------------------------------------- Other parameters are '-set_scale 0.05 0.05 0.001' '-set_offset 500000 2000000 0' '-set_file_creation 67 2011' '-set_system_identifier "Riegl 500,000 Hz"' '-set_generating_software "LAStools"' '-utm 14T' '-sp83 CA_I -feet -elevation_survey_feet' '-longlat -elevation_feet' --------------- if you find bugs let me (martin.isenburg@rapidlasso.com) know.