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Visit from @hobuinc to explore, scan, and visualize #COPC and LAS/LAZ #lidar data right in your browser. Visit to see it in action or visit to drag-n-drop your own COPC or LAS/LAZ content onto the page.

@howardbutler wrote a @pointcloudpipe tutorial for Google Colab that shows how to use the PDAL Python bindings to produce DSM, DTM, Intensity, and CHM products for anywhere there is data. Learn more at

RT @howardbutler: New @USGS 3DEP LiDAR data for Eastern Iowa has been released. Explore downtown @CityOfIowaCity using the @hobuinc lidar v…

Do you have a country's worth of #lidar data and you're not sure how to manage it? Contact @hobuinc to learn how to apply and @entwineio technologies for the management of continental scale point clouds

RT @rjhale: What's happening in Nashville at the FOSS4G Meetup? @howardbutler is gonna keynote this thing on December 1st. Yes - the Howar…

RT @howardbutler: Everything I said about @Esri zLAS and LASzip to the @OSGeo board in 2015 still holds true today *except* LAZ has now gai…

@implgeo @howardbutler @connor2n2o @sourcepole I hope @whiteboxgeo sees this too.

@implgeo @howardbutler @connor2n2o @sourcepole Indeed. Please make a PR to adding your implementation!

Look at all of the currently delivered @USGS 3DEP #lidar data for Iowa in your web browser using the @hobuinc COPC/EPT viewer from @connor2n2o based on @CesiumJS by visiting #gischat

We're excited to help get point cloud streaming of massive point clouds to the bathymetric software domain!

Please reach out if your organization is interested in cloud-based bulk access to lidar point cloud datasets from Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, or Poland. Our cloud work has us gathering them, and you can pay us to save trouble on the automation and processing.

The @hobuinc team is asking users of the AWS USGS 3DEP Open Dataset to provide survey feedback to help with the organization, management, and roadmap of the effort. If you are a user of the data, please chime in with some feedback at

@connor2n2o recently enhanced the COPC viewer to support @entwineio EPT. Paste in any HTTP-readable ept.json or COPC resources and create view snapshots with the "Create link" button.

RT @howardbutler: Python Rtree 1.0.0 released, with wheels, wheels, wheels. All the wheels. It only took us 14 years to get to 1.0.0 @sgil…

A notebook from @howardbutler shows how and @pointcloudpipe can process large LiDAR point cloud data conveniently, quickly, and efficiently.