[pdal] PDAL 1.0.0 Released

Newcomb, Doug doug_newcomb at fws.gov
Thu Sep 10 14:52:45 PDT 2015


Congratulations on reaching this benchmark!

Doug

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> All,
>
> After years of saying we'd have a release, but still being hesitant to
> actually follow through with it, we now have a PDAL 1.0.0 release. There's
> tons of stuff in it, and for those who've been following along for quite a
> while now, thanks for hanging around. Here's a short bullet list of PDAL
> 1.0.0 capabilities, just in time for #foss4g:
>
> * git-style `pdal` command line utility for processing data
> http://www.pdal.io/apps.html
> * 18+ readers, 14+ writers, and 17+ filters
> http://www.pdal.io/stages/index.html
> * VRT-like "pipeline" syntax for stacking operations together
> http://www.pdal.io/pipeline.html
> * Python extension for manipulating data in Numpy
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PDAL
>
> I would like to thank Michael Gerlek for his design guidance and
> implementation support during PDAL's early days, Brad Chambers for his
> awesomely useful additions and refactoring, and Andrew Bell for his
> performance optimization, maintenance support, and design improvements.
> Contributions from numerous very patient users and developers also helped
> get us this far, and they are very much appreciated.
>
> There's still plenty of rough edges, but PDAL has been used in data
> warehousing production for a few years. This 1.0.0 release signals that
> we're ready for folks to give it a spin and see if they find it useful too.
> We will probably just increment minor versions (1.1, 1.2, ..., 1.x) for a
> while as we learn and adapt to how others are integrating and using the
> code in their own situations. Version numbers are cheap, so expect more of
> them.
>
> We hope you find the code useful, and we look forward to your
> contributions.
>
> Howard
>
> http://download.osgeo.org/pdal/PDAL-1.0.0-src.tar.gz
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