I had a lot of fun making the feature image for my second open source point cloud infrastructure post – and I liked the map, so I thought I’d share the recipe. Unfortunately, it took a while because I decided to make it better! I hope I succeeded – I certainly had more fun and…
Category: open data
An open source point cloud infrastructure part 2: oceans
If you haven’t read part 1 of this miniseries, go take a look. To really briefly summarise, it tells a short backstory about why the PDAL + Entwine needs to be on the radar for anyone considering massive point-cloud based data management; and provides a couple of terrestrial examples. Here, we tackle hydrography. The GEBCO…
An open source point cloud data infrastructure: introduction, and land.
I’ve recently been exploring the Point Data Abstraction Library (PDAL) and Entwine ecosystem a lot. For work, and for proving some ideas that have been kicking around for a few years now (see my EGU poster from 2016, or FOSS4G talk in 2017). These are not new ideas – other people have had them for…