[MDAL-Developer] MDAL, Unity and C#

[Peter Petrik]

sounds good to me
P.

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:38 PM Paul Harwood <runette at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am tempted to say that it should be based on the same technology stack
> as PDAL Python :
>
> i.e. Cython importing the data in Numpy ndarray with a built in option of
> importing the mesh as meshio (https://github.com/nschloe/meshio) - mostly
> because I have already worked out a lot of the quirks in the PDAL interface
> - see https://github.com/PDAL/python/pull/82/files
>
> On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 14:37, Paul Harwood <runette at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well - I was hoping that someone else would have at least some basics as
>> a starting point :(
>>
>> I have a Python program that needs to access basic data. I will give it
>> some thought before I answer your questions - but do you have any
>> preferences?
>>
>> As for the repo - I think that the PDAL and GDAL discussions I have seen
>> would suggest that a "Python bindings" repository would be a much better
>> idea than including it in the main MDAL repo - avoids the need to create
>> new versions of MDAL just because of changes to the bindings.
>>
>> P
>>
>> On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 14:24, Peter Petrik <
>> peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Paul and thanks for the update.
>>>
>>> MDAL from python would definitely be a nice addition. So far we been
>>> accessing it directly from QGIS and mdalinfo command line tool. Do you plan
>>> to have separate repository or you want to keep it in the MDAL repository?
>>> Also which python wrapping system you would like to use?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 3:20 PM Paul Harwood <runette at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry - I also meant to say that the C# interface is documented here
>>>> https://virgis-team.github.io/mdal-upm/html/index.html
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 14:15, Paul Harwood <runette at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I will just put this here in case anyone is interested and also for
>>>>> future reference and future google searches.
>>>>>
>>>>> As well as the MDAL Conda package and built on top of it, there is
>>>>> also an MDAL Unity Package Manager (UPM) package to allow MDAL to be used
>>>>> in Unity projects (i.e. 3D, AR and VR etc). see
>>>>> https://openupm.com/packages/com.virgis.mdal/
>>>>>
>>>>> As part of this - there are some scripts for accessing MDAL in C#
>>>>> (Unity uses C#) - see
>>>>> https://github.com/ViRGIS-Team/mdal-upm/blob/main/Runtime/Scripts/Mdal.cs
>>>>>
>>>>> This is not a generic C# interface and is not supported as such.
>>>>> However, it does provide examples of MDAL can be used in C#. Please send
>>>>> any feedback / suggestions to the GH Issues :
>>>>> https://github.com/ViRGIS-Team/mdal-upm/issues
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone done anything similar for accessing MDAL form Python - my
>>>>> next challenge?
>>>>>
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