<div dir="ltr">Hi John,<div><br></div><div>Many thanks for pointing to the WhiteboxTools. I was not personally aware of this.</div><div><br></div><div>A general note about the plan for supporting point cloud data in QGIS: for the first phase (the one we are currently running a crowdfunding campaign for) the idea is to add a new data provider (similar to vector, raster, mesh) to handle point cloud data. This will allow users to visualise and style the data. It will also be the first and necessary step towards opening up the rest of QGIS (e.g. the processing toolbox) to make use of the new data provider. </div><div><br></div><div>In terms of shipping WhiteboxTool with QGIS, I will leave it to others to comment on, but I know there has been some efforts to discourage shipping extra tools with QGIS and instead working with developers of other processing providers to integrate their tools as a Processing plugin.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Saber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 16:43, John Lindsay <<a href="mailto:jlindsay@uoguelph.ca">jlindsay@uoguelph.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-kerning:none">This is one of the first times that I've posted to this list-serv, so I hope you'll forgive my ignorance if this is an inappropriate venue for this. I've noticed from a Twitter announcement that QGIS is pursuing native point
cloud capabilities. I thought that this would be a good time that at the moment there is a substantial amount of LiDAR data processing capability that can be derived by using the WhiteboxTools QGIS front-end, and in particular the
<a href="https://jblindsay.github.io/wbt_book/available_tools/lidar_tools.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(66,1,120)">LiDAR processing toolbox</span></a>. The QGIS front-end is maintained by Alex Bruy, and I know that
there has been interest in the past in including this in the main QGIS development branch such that WBT could be a standard toolset, much like how the SAGA and GRASS tools are now. I'm wondering, as you are thinking about enhancing QGIS's point cloud capabilities,
if this is an opportune time to have that broader discussion of inclusion of WBT. While I have developed WBT to be front-end agnostic, and there are other front-ends for ArcGIS, Python, and R, the QGIS front-end is personally the most important of these to
me. I would be very pleased for these tools to be distributed as a core component of QGIS if there is a willingness to do so among this members of this group.</span></p>
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