Hi, Since LIDAR data 1. has a special data structure 2. is huge and 3. needs index, using a database with QGIS as client seems to me a natural architectural decision. As you may know, PostgreSQL has a pointcloud extension made by the "father" of PostGIS, Paul. See e.g. my wiki notes and presentation here: http://giswiki.hsr.ch/PointCloud
-- Stefan 2014/1/29 Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Il 29/01/2014 19:04, Larry Shaffer ha scritto: > >> I contacted Howard Butler, one of the developers of PDAL, about possibly >> providing >> some input on questions we have in this thread, and believe he is now >> subscribed to >> the list. >> >> Howard, any ideas on a strategy for using PDAL in QGIS, e.g. via proposed >> GDAL >> support, as a separate data provider, and/or utilizing its command line >> utilities via >> a Processing plugin provider? > > IMVHO we need a data provider rather (before) than processing tools. > I believe this would be easier with a dedicated provider rather than through > GDAL, > but I leave the question to Howard or others. > All the best. > > - -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu > Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlLpRJQACgkQ/NedwLUzIr4BbQCfUJJf1wj8fPo0EtECZFMpYu/N > AC0AnjIPqdC5urMgf/1FFZlg00HTXJbg > =rr0G > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
