<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Markus Metz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markus.metz.giswork@googlemail.com">markus.metz.giswork@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, <<a href="mailto:Doug_Newcomb@fws.gov">Doug_Newcomb@fws.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>The new format offers new possibilities for the v.surf.* modules<br>
>>because it is now possible to build (parts of the) topology even for<br>
>>massive point clouds which in turn makes it possible to quickly<br>
>>perform spatial queries with very low memory consumption (a very few<br>
>>MB)<br>
</div>> Markus,<br>
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> By massive point clouds, do you mean greater than 4 Billion points? A good<br>
> long weekend for testing at home<br>
> :-)<br>
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Ummh, no, 4 billion is probably a bit much. It would however require<br>
relatively little changes to support that amount of points...<br></blockquote><div><br>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.<br></div>
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