RT @Jeffreygillan: @hobuinc @pointcloudpipe Thanks for the tools to stream a copc point cloud of some of my recent drone work! @tswetnam ht…

Maintenance release PDAL 2.5.1 is now available. Visit for details.

PDAL 2.5.0 is released. Tons of new features including Terrasolid binary read/write, trajectory estimation from @NCALM_UH, @STACspec read support, and many enhancements.

RT @jo_chemla: @jonni_walker Thanks! An opportunity for a warm shoot-out to @Mapbox as well as all OSS libraries and standards we use to st…

PDAL Python bindings 3.2.0 have been released. Grab them from or wait a few hours to get them from @condaforge. The hot new features it the ability to universally fetch the SRS of a pipeline. 🔥

RT @tswetnam: Excited to teach our first workshop on Cloud Native Data for geospatial at @AZGeoCouncil 2022. Workshop materials are all op…

RT @michael_smith: State of PDAL talk from FOSS4G2022 - Slides:

If you're at #FOSS4G next week, make sure to visit with @pointcloudpipe team members @michael_smith, @connor2n2o, @chambbj, and @howardbutler and see Michael give "State of PDAL" in the Verde room at 4:45 on Thursday.

has been updated today to use @readthedocs instead of our homespun documentation builds. The most important improvement as a result is multi-version docs. Thanks to the RTD team for providing such an awesome service for projects such as @pointcloudpipe.

PDAL 2.4.3 has been released. It includes a fix for a major memory leak with LAZ files, remote writing support, and a LAS SRS overwriting convenience. Get your binary copy from @condaforge or build it yourself if that's your way.

More information about the release can be found on the release page at

RT @howardbutler: Listen to me and @StevenFeldman on this week's @geomob podcast if you want to learn more about @p…

PDAL is not a workflow engine for processing point cloud data. PDAL is a library *for making* point cloud processing workflow engines.

RT @berttemme: New blog: Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (#COPC) Live demo:

Here's a notebook showing how to use and PDAL to incrementally build up pipelines, use them to rasterize different dimensions, and display them.

@ultrazool @UOAutzen Max Sampson from Hobu spent a lot of time in CloudCompare manually labeling it all.

PDAL 2.4.0 is released. It includes read and write support, time queries in @tiledb, comment support in JSON pipelines, and embedded always-on LAZ support due to LASzip Apache relicensing. Release notes at

RT @Ginetto: Free to use urban #pcl Point cloud data in #laz and #ept: Published after three years of the original…