<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="direction: ltr;">Yes , it must be run through browser</div><div><br>On 13 בנוב 2013, at 03:10, Chris Foster <<a href="mailto:chris.foster@roames.com.au">chris.foster@roames.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Does it need to run in a browser? If not, I've been working on a</span><br><span>desktop-based lidar point cloud viewer which might help you out - see</span><br><span><a href="http://c42f.github.io/displaz">http://c42f.github.io/displaz</a>. I'm close to a 0.2 release which will</span><br><span>include a binary installer for windows.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Cheers,</span><br><span>~Chris</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 13 November 2013 01:26, Eran Nevo <<a href="mailto:eran@utilis.co.il">eran@utilis.co.il</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm looking for some kind of lidar viewer</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 12 בנוב 2013, at 17:15, "Michael P. Gerlek" <<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com">mpg@flaxen.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Eran-</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The sheer volume of point cloud data, as Howard says, makes it very hard to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>display in a traditional web browser system, e.g. OpenLayers fed by JSON.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>You'll need to find a way to reduce the point count in a smart way - like</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>feeding out a LOD (level of detail) algorithm.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Two or three years ago, people started looking for good ways to do this.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>There might be an open source solution by now, but it would require</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>something more heavyweight than just OpenLayers.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_mpg</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Nov 12, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Eran Nevo <<a href="mailto:eran@utilis.co.il">eran@utilis.co.il</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Oh , I'm looking for open source solution to show lidar on web application</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 12 בנוב 2013, at 16:40, Howard Butler <<a href="mailto:howard@hobu.co">howard@hobu.co</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Nov 11, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Eran Nevo <<a href="mailto:eran@utilis.co.il">eran@utilis.co.il</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi there ,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Can anyone point me to an example how to implement PDAL with OpenLayers ?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I have LAS file and PostGIS db with points in them.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Want to try PDAL.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>OpenLayers is a web JavaScript technology. PDAL is a data translation</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>software focused on transformations from one format to another. You could</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>try using PDAL to export point cloud data to GeoJSON (using</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>drivers.text.writer) and importing that into an OpenLayers map in some way.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>You are very likely to overwhelm any browser, however, with any significant</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>amount of point cloud data.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Howard</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>pdal mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:pdal@lists.osgeo.org">pdal@lists.osgeo.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pdal">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pdal</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>pdal mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:pdal@lists.osgeo.org">pdal@lists.osgeo.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pdal">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pdal</a></span><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></body></html>