[postgis-devel] Point Cloud in PostGIS and Open Source Development

[Paul Ramsey]

Nope, nothing available right now except "use the source Luke" (actually don't use it, just read it). I'll detail it more in a week or so (and not on the mailing list, but in the README.md) but right now I'm under a ton of pressure to just get the foundations laid down. Not being a great developer, I'm constantly backtracking my design so I'm Really Stressed Out right now, not really in top communication form. 

It's not a PostGIS development, it's independent, it will have optional dependencies on PostGIS so it can be used in an integrated way if do desired, much as raster was originally a separate project.

Since I don't want help at the moment, I'm placing a minimum of effort into community things like marketing and publicity and talking to folks.  If I wanted to recruit developers I'd be going about it a different way probably.

I hope you'll all come to my talk at FOSS4G NA, for the grand unveiling.

P. 

-- 
Paul Ramsey
http://cleverelephant.ca
http://postgis.net


On Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Pierre Racine wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to get more information about the current development of point cloud support in PostGIS? This project seems to be going on (https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud) but I haven't seen anything about the data structure planned (is that it? https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud/blob/master/README.md), about function specifications, about the road map, about the people and organizations involved, about the justification for the current design. The only thing that seems open in this project is the source code. No open discussion, no open document, no open specifications, no open road map. Is this an open project?
> 
> Seems to me that every steps of open source software development should be open. Not just the source code...
> 
> Is this project in any way related to this other initiative: http://wiki.hsr.ch/Datenbanken/files/pgsql_point_cloud.pdf
> 
> How is it related to PDAL?
> 
> I can pay 5000$ to anybody (other than PR) having info on this project. (Just joking...)
> 
> Pierre
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