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<p>OpenDroneMap users,</p>
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Tomorrow we will be publishing a huge update. We've incorporated a processing framework for the ODM toolchain and improved the installation process. If you've been using the "dev" branch on GitHub recently, this is nothing new for you. Read below for the changelog
and watch for another email tomorrow when the release is finalized. </p>
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Installation</h4>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">cmake superbuild for all components</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Now you will run the following to install or update ODM:</li></ul>
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mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && cd ..
# copy paste the following (with correct directory structure) into your ~/.bashrc (or other preferred method) (requires logout/in to work)
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/install/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/src/opensfm
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/install/lib
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Running ODM</h4>
<div><a href="https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap/tree/dev#running-opendronemap">Use these instructions to run the processing script</a>. Note there are significant differences from the previous version, namely you have to specify
<span style="font-family: Consolas, monospace;">--project-path </span></div>
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Code restructure</h4>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Object Oriented Code</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://plasmodic.github.io/ecto/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(64, 120, 192); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;" title="https://plasmodic.github.io/ecto/
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link">Ecto</a> processing framework</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Project tree:
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your ODM project will have a more organized structure. One big change is that your images must be placed in a "images/" subdirectory in the project folder.</li></ul>
</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Testing framework</li></ul>
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Feature additions / changes</h4>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Add XYZ pointcloud output</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">benchmarking with <code style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; border-radius: 3px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157);">--time</code></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Replacement of LASTools with PDAL</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Control script updates - <code style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; border-radius: 3px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157);">--rerun-from</code>, <code style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; border-radius: 3px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157);">--rerun-all</code></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remove local ccd_defs in lieu of OpenSfM sensor data file.</li></ul>
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