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Yep, lots of talk at the code sprint. The sponsor will be there, and also Howard so much lidar talk will happen.
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Friday, 1 March, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Pierre Racine wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Thanks Paul.</div><div><br></div><div>Just impatient to see what we will be able to do with that (like producing more nifty rasters in the database ;) Will discussion be open at the code sprint?</div><div><br></div><div>Pierre</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>-----Original Message-----</div><div>From: postgis-devel-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [<a href="mailto:postgis-devel-">mailto:postgis-devel-</a></div><div><a href="mailto:bounces@lists.osgeo.org">bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey</div><div>Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:53 AM</div><div>To: PostGIS Development Discussion</div><div>Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Point Cloud in PostGIS and Open Source</div><div>Development</div><div><br></div><div>Nope, nothing available right now except "use the source Luke" (actually don't</div><div>use it, just read it). I'll detail it more in a week or so (and not on the mailing list,</div><div>but in the <a href="http://README.md">README.md</a>) but right now I'm under a ton of pressure to just get the</div><div>foundations laid down. Not being a great developer, I'm constantly backtracking</div><div>my design so I'm Really Stressed Out right now, not really in top communication</div><div>form.</div><div><br></div><div>It's not a PostGIS development, it's independent, it will have optional</div><div>dependencies on PostGIS so it can be used in an integrated way if do desired,</div><div>much as raster was originally a separate project.</div><div><br></div><div>Since I don't want help at the moment, I'm placing a minimum of effort into</div><div>community things like marketing and publicity and talking to folks. If I wanted to</div><div>recruit developers I'd be going about it a different way probably.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope you'll all come to my talk at FOSS4G NA, for the grand unveiling.</div><div><br></div><div>P.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Paul Ramsey</div><div><a href="http://cleverelephant.ca">http://cleverelephant.ca</a></div><div><a href="http://postgis.net">http://postgis.net</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Pierre Racine wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible to get more information about the current development of point</div></div></blockquote><div>cloud support in PostGIS? This project seems to be going on</div><div>(<a href="https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud">https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud</a>) but I haven't seen anything about the</div><div>data structure planned (is that it?</div><div><a href="https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud/blob/master/README.md">https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud/blob/master/README.md</a>), about</div><div>function specifications, about the road map, about the people and organizations</div><div>involved, about the justification for the current design. The only thing that</div><div>seems open in this project is the source code. No open discussion, no open</div><div>document, no open specifications, no open road map. Is this an open project?</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><br></div><div>Seems to me that every steps of open source software development should be</div></div></blockquote><div>open. Not just the source code...</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><br></div><div>Is this project in any way related to this other initiative:</div></div></blockquote><div><a href="http://wiki.hsr.ch/Datenbanken/files/pgsql_point_cloud.pdf">http://wiki.hsr.ch/Datenbanken/files/pgsql_point_cloud.pdf</a></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><br></div><div>How is it related to PDAL?</div><div><br></div><div>I can pay 5000$ to anybody (other than PR) having info on this project. 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