PDAL

@hobuinc @pointcloudpipe Thanks for the tools to stream a copc point cloud of some of my recent drone work! @tswetnam

Maintenance release PDAL 2.5.1 is now available. Visit github.com/PDAL/PDAL/rele… for details.

PDAL 2.5.0 is released. github.com/PDAL/PDAL/rele… Tons of new features including Terrasolid binary read/write, trajectory estimation from @NCALM_UH, @STACspec read support, and many copc.io enhancements.

@jonni_walker Thanks! An opportunity for a warm shoot-out to @Mapbox as well as all OSS libraries and standards we use to store and retrieve our 3D scans on our platform (#potree from @m_schuetz, @CesiumJS #3Dtiles, @pointcloudpipe from @howardbutler team)

PDAL Python bindings 3.2.0 have been released. Grab them from pypi.org/project/pdal/ or wait a few hours to get them from @condaforge. The hot new features it the ability to universally fetch the SRS of a pipeline. 🔥

State of PDAL talk from FOSS4G2022 - Slides: tinyurl.com/pdal2022

If you're at #FOSS4G next week, make sure to visit with @pointcloudpipe team members @michael_smith, @connor2n2o, @chambbj, and @howardbutler and see Michael give "State of PDAL" in the Verde room at 4:45 on Thursday.

pdal.io has been updated today to use @readthedocs instead of our homespun documentation builds. The most important improvement as a result is multi-version docs. Thanks to the RTD team for providing such an awesome service for projects such as @pointcloudpipe.

PDAL 2.4.3 has been released. github.com/PDAL/PDAL/rele… It includes a fix for a major memory leak with LAZ files, remote COPC.io writing support, and a LAS SRS overwriting convenience. Get your binary copy from @condaforge or build it yourself if that's your way.

More information about the release can be found on the release page at github.com/PDAL/PDAL/rele…

PDAL 2.4.1 released. A small fix for making sure COPC.io files are as small as possible, and some UTF filename support for the upcoming @qgis release were the items that necessitated this maintenance release.

Listen to me and @StevenFeldman on this week's @geomob podcast thegeomob.com/podcast/episod… if you want to learn more about @pointcloudpipe, how @GdalOrg raised resources from its sponsors, and how it developed its sponsorship program with @NumFOCUS.

PDAL is not a workflow engine for processing point cloud data. PDAL is a library *for making* point cloud processing workflow engines. lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/pdal…

New blog: Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (#COPC) bertt.wordpress.com/2022/03/29/clo… Live demo: viewer.copc.io/?state=65df1fc…

Here's a notebook showing how to use COPC.io and PDAL to incrementally build up pipelines, use them to rasterize different dimensions, and display them. gist.github.com/hobu/37b3b21b4…

@ultrazool @UOAutzen Max Sampson from Hobu spent a lot of time in CloudCompare manually labeling it all.

Data from @uoautzen is a Stanford bunny of #lidar data. Max Sampson from Hobu, Inc. recently labeled all 10 million points with 15 classifications for ML testing and training activities. You can see it online at autzen.entwine.io

PDAL 2.4.0 is released. It includes COPC.io read and write support, time queries in @tiledb, comment support in JSON pipelines, and embedded always-on LAZ support due to LASzip Apache relicensing. Release notes at github.com/PDAL/PDAL/rele…

Free to use urban #pcl Point cloud data in #laz and #ept: cartolab.udc.es/geomove/datos/… Published after three years of the original work that generated pdaltools #qgis plugin when #pdal was not yet integrated in qgis. FYI @pointcloudpipe. Remembering @rapidlasso

I’ve was asked here why we developed COPC.io, and the reason is without open data formats and specifications, there is no open source software. @LAStools and #laszipforever are only viable because of @ASPRSorg LAS.