[Qgis-user] LIDAR and QGIS

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Jean

2013/2/24 MORREALE Jean Roc <jr.morreale at enoreth.net>:
> I use a mix of liblas/lastools to manage the data, GRASS and SAGA for 3D
> vizualisation and interpolation and QGIS for the daily tasks.

I could wish, I would prefer a "clean" QGIS solutions (without
GRASS/SAGA dependencies) which uses a "proper" pointcloud data type
(here: from PostGIS).

> About QGIS/GRASS : don't even try to import or open all your dataset, work
> on subsets.

That's why a new data type pointcloud is needed.

> Thank for the information ! Adding that to the existing 3d capabilities of
> postgis would be a great thing. I hope that Paul will go beyond zlib for the
> compression.

Your're welcome.
I hope Paul reads this thread.

Yours, Stefan

2013/2/24 MORREALE Jean Roc <jr.morreale at enoreth.net>:
> Le 24/02/2013 17:09, Stefan Keller a écrit :
>
>> Hi Jake
>>
>>> 2013/2/24 Jake Maier <j.m at jmforestry.com>
>>
>> (...)
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have experience with LIDAR and qgis, what do I need to
>>>> display
>>>> LIDAR information within qgis?
>
>
> I use a mix of liblas/lastools to manage the data, GRASS and SAGA for 3D
> vizualisation and interpolation and QGIS for the daily tasks.
>
> About QGIS/GRASS : don't even try to import or open all your dataset, work
> on subsets.
>
>
>> The ultimate solution of course would be to integrate PostGIS in QGIS!
>> Paul seems to have got funded work on it [1].
>> How easy this new data type pointcloud integrates with QGIS I don't know
>> yet.
>> I already asked him to report eventually on PostGIS dev or PostGIS
>> users mailing list.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Stefan
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud
>
>
> Thank for the information ! Adding that to the existing 3d capabilities of
> postgis would be a great thing. I hope that Paul will go beyond zlib for the
> compression.
>
>
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