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... an interactive GUI featuring customizable color schemes, classification legends, and point picking. It even works seamlessly inside Jupyter Notebooks. Visualizing tens of millions of LiDAR points has never been this simple or fast, making it easy to build modern, lightweight, and fully interactive web-based LiDAR viewers. Try it out: Live Demo Viewer: GitHub Repository: Full Video Tutorial: #MapLibre #LiDAR #WebGIS #OpenSource #PointCloud #3DMappingshow more

@DavidMoss

Oh, I am going to check this out as soon as I finish up my day job projects. This looks amazing ... 2026 in geospatial is looking pretty good!

Thanks Doc Wu for this info

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Looks nice! What's the upper limit on the number of points?

No limit. The large one I have seen so far has 467 billion points. It can be rendered without any problem.

Great! Our team at Amazon regularly needs to viz about 6b+ point clouds. We will definitely use this for visualization!

is anyone using this for very dynamic situations like ocean waves?

You can as long as have the point cloud data

A replacement to potree?

I see it as a supplement, not replacement. Nice thing about this new tool is that you can visualize multiple geospatial data formats on the map, making it easier to integrate existing geospatial workflows.

But can I use it to create tracks in @AC_assettocorsa ?!?

Looking great! Are you aiming to integrate your aplibre plugin work into COPC/LAS Loader?

See my reply here:

Great, thanks for pointing to your implementation in the thread! If I recall correctly, hobu team and ibgreen from fsq studio were pretty interesting in this copc/loadersgl integration, but lacking time and funding to finish it

This looks really nice! Can we also use standard background map layers, like we do in OpenLayers ( ?

Yes, you can click on the layer icon in the upper-right corner to turn on other XYZ/WMS layers. Very easy to customize.

also have you checked out how it’s done in Deck? i have deck + maplibre example -

Yes, I know the DeckGL Point Cloud Layer. However, it does not support LAS 1.4 and COPC. That's why I had to develop my own plugin to make it work.

That's great work, I was able to implement this in my mapcn-vue app - & lower level raw implementation -

Nice 👍

That sounds like a valuable tool for the community; visualizing LiDAR data in the browser will really enhance accessibility.