[Qgis-user] LIDAR and QGIS

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Jake

> 2013/2/24 Jake Maier <j.m at jmforestry.com>
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>> Does anyone have experience with LIDAR and qgis, what do I need to display
>> LIDAR information within qgis?

The ultimate solution of course would be to integrate PostGIS in QGIS!
Paul seems to have got funded work on it [1].
How easy this new data type pointcloud integrates with QGIS I don't know yet.
I already asked him to report eventually on PostGIS dev or PostGIS
users mailing list.

Yours,
Stefan

[1] https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud



2013/2/24 Johan Nilsson <joni8135 at gmail.com>:
> I think you need to install libLAS-bin (http://www.liblas.org/) to save it
> as Geotiff or asci (xyz) values. Then I don't think QGIS can disply it in
> 3D? You maybe can do it i GRASS and  nviz, i think. The freeware Fugroview
> are much quicker, I think. Fugroview works fine under wine.
>
> Ubuntu have libLAS-bin in the repository as a cli-program.
>
> If there are other ways, I really want to hear about them.
>
> /Cheers
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> 2013/2/24 Jake Maier <j.m at jmforestry.com>
>>
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with LIDAR and qgis, what do I need to display
>> LIDAR information within qgis?
>>
>> I mean other than the 2 terabyte hard drive to obtain the information?
>>
>> Or does anyone know if I can get LIDAR for Maine (USA) on the internet?
>>
>> Thank you very much for any pointers.
>>
>> Jake
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