[GRASS-user] Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7 vector topology format changed

[Daniel Lee]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Markus Metz <
markus.metz.giswork at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM,  <Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov> wrote:
> >
> >>The new format offers new possibilities for the v.surf.* modules
> >>because it is now possible to build (parts of the) topology even for
> >>massive point clouds which in turn makes it possible to quickly
> >>perform spatial queries with very low memory consumption (a very few
> >>MB)
> > Markus,
> >
> > By massive point clouds, do you mean greater than 4 Billion points?  A
> good
> > long weekend for testing at home
> > :-)
> >
> Ummh, no, 4 billion is probably a bit much. It would however require
> relatively little changes to support that amount of points...
>

That would be great if it wouldn't be a lot of work! I work with LiDAR
clouds and sometimes that's a TON of point data.
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