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Excited to share a new open-source project for the web-mapping and LiDAR community: maplibre-gl-lidar 🚀 With maplibre-gl-lidar, you can visualize large-scale LiDAR point clouds (LAS/LAZ, including COPC) directly in the browser using MapLibre GL JS. It supports point-cloud data stored locally or hosted on the web, and comes with...

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