Spatialised has become a bronze sponsor of FOSS4G SotM Oceania for 2019. This small contribution was a big step in terms of spending on any form of marketing/support budget we have – in the past year Spatialised is solvent but not into clear air cashflow-wise yet. The marketing budget is completely exhausted now after spending…
Category: OSgeo
FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018
In late November 2018 the inaugural FOSS4G SotM Oceania conference took place – as one of the organisers it is still completely surreal that it was real, and we made it happen! To me, it feels now as if a few enthusiastic people had a conversation about a year ago, someone waved a magic wand,…
16 bit to 8 bit RGB colours with PDAL and Python
Sometimes LAS files have RGB values stored as 16 bit colours. This currently upsets the Potree viewer, and maybe some other things. The following recipe using Python and PDAL ‘eightbitifies’ colours. It also compresses incoming LAS files to LAZ. PDAL has a neat filters.python option, which passes every incoming point into a python function. Flexible huh?…
A geospatial tinkerer’s feast: FOSS4G 2017
Between 11 and 19 August 2017 I was in Boston (USA) for the OSGeo foundation’s FOSS4G conference. To write a one sentence summary of the event? It’s like a cornucopia of open source geospatial ideas, applications and inspirations! Variously the event has been compared to disneyland, summer camp, and a few other things. It’s my…