[OpenLayers-Users] General question for displaying large numbers of points

[Russel Tinnion]

Nicholas

I don't know what your application is trying to portray with LIDAR (Point Cloud Data) but I would suggest pre-processing the data through a tool such as Safe Software FME (http://www.safe.com/highlight/lidar/) into Tiled Referenced Raster Images then use GeoServer Mosaic/Pyramid tools to create raster Stores for representation.

My response probably raises more things to think about than answers your initial question......all the best.

Cheers

Russel

From: openlayers-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:openlayers-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas Efremov-Kendall
Sent: 11 May 2011 22:12
To: users at openlayers.org
Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] General question for displaying large numbers of points

Has anyone on the list encountered or dealt with a situation where very large numbers of points needed to be displayed or rendered (i.e. LIDAR data)? I would imagine that you'd have to do the rendering server-side, and then display an optimized product in the client. Has anyone confronted this, or have suggestions?
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