[Qgis-developer] OTB and LiDAR tools as separate plugins

C Hamilton adenaculture at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 13:21:12 PST 2017


Is anyone working towards fully open source LIDAR tools that could replace
LAStools?

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:51 AM, <jrmorreale_ml at enoreth.net> wrote:

> Le 2017-01-30 19:24, Victor Olaya a écrit :
>
>> One good thing that we have been discussing, related to this move, is
>> that for LiDAR tools, it should be possible to have a plugin that has
>> not just the code of the Processign provider, but the binaries as
>> well, so installing the plugin would add the algorithms to Processing
>> without any need to configure the paths to LASTools and FUSION
>> binaries, since they can be harcoded. If there is a change in the
>> binaries (such as an update), and the provider code has to be changed,
>> a new release can be made, independently of the QGIS release cycle
>> (unlike it happens now)
>>
>> I think this is an interesting topic to discuss, and that's why I
>> wanted to send this email to get more feedback.
>>
>> Thanks for your ideas!
>>
>
> One thing to keep in mind is that not all the LIDAR tools are open
> sources, 2/3 of the LAStools aren't and slightly distort the output after
> certain point limits are exceeded. My opinion is that QGIS shouldn't ship
> or assist the distribution of closed binaries.
>
>
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