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been provided as an LGPL-licensed stand-alone software library to allow other softwares that handle LAS data to read and write LASzip-compressed data. The BSD-licensed libLAS and the LGPL-licensed LASlib can take advantage of LASzip to read and write compressed data. LASzip is completely lossless. It compresses bulky LAS files into compact LAZ files that are only 10-20 percent of the original size, accurately preserving every single bit. PR: ports/163956 Submitted by: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> Approved by: glarkin@ (mentor)
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LASzip is a compression library for compressing ASPRS LAS format data. It has
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been provided as an LGPL-licensed stand-alone software library to allow other
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softwares that handle LAS data to read and write LASzip-compressed data. The
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BSD-licensed libLAS and the LGPL-licensed LASlib can take advantage of LASzip to
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read and write compressed data.
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LASzip is completely lossless. It compresses bulky LAS files into compact LAZ
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files that are only 10-20 percent of the original size, accurately preserving
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every single bit.
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WWW: http://laszip.org/
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