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Development
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Topics
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 0
   
   buildbot
   specifications
   source
   format_elements
   Motivation <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc>
   2010 Annual Report <annual_report_2010>
   RFCs <rfc/index>
   LAS 1.4 WKT Proposal <wkt>


Authors
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The libLAS development team are:

 * `Howard Butler`_
 * `Mateusz Loskot`_
 * `Phil Vachon`_
 * Martin Vales
 * `Frank Warmerdam`_

Special thanks to `Martin Isenburg and Jonathan Shewchuk`_ for their
:ref:`lastools_liblas` pioneering implementation of the ASPRS LAS standard that made 
development of the libLAS library possible.


.. _`Howard Butler`: http://hobu.biz
.. _`Mateusz Loskot`: http://mateusz.loskot.net
.. _`Phil Vachon`: http://www.geoscan.info
.. _`Frank Warmerdam`: http://home.gdal.org/warmerda/
.. _`Martin Isenburg and Jonathan Shewchuk`: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/