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Visualize 350TB of LiDAR Point Clouds (75 Trillion Points in Your Browser!) Learn how to access and visualize massive USGS LiDAR datasets, including over 350TB and 75 trillion points, directly in your browser using two powerful open-source formats: - COPC (Cloud Optimized Point Cloud) - Entwine Point Tiles (EPT)... show more

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josephkerski8 months ago

Yes truly big data

CatGod8 months ago

Awesome! Your web viewer is the best example of making massive datasets accessible I've ever seen. No downloads needed.

Aidan Beltskeys8 months ago

How can you prove to me that 75 trillion points are actually being loaded

Tech Persona8 months ago

Looks cool

Tobe Duru8 months ago

that's a game changer for geospatial data access

Crozius8 months ago

Euclideon's Unlimited Detail founder grinding teeth somewhere.

mrkelly8 months ago

Most people see 75 trillion points. I see the infrastructure bill nobody's discussing.

H8 months ago

Is there something similar for UK and Europe?

Qiusheng Wu8 months ago

You can use the lidar viewer to any lidar data you have or find online

coolkidhugh678 months ago

Dope

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Qiusheng Wu

24,578 views • 2 months ago

GeoLibre v1.2.0 is here! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. One application that runs everywhere: in your web browser, as a native desktop app, on your phone, and inside a Jupyter notebook. No account, no server, no cost. Everything runs locally and your data stays private. This release packs in 35+ pull requests of new capabilities. A few highlights: - Run SQL right in the browser. The SQL Workspace pairs DuckDB Spatial with a new in-browser PostGIS engine (PGlite), so you can query layers, local files, and remote URLs without a server. - A smarter attribute table. Add fields, run a field calculator, and explore your data with a built-in Charts panel (histogram, scatter, bar, line, and box plots). - More ways to add data. OpenStreetMap PBF extracts, Cloud-Optimized NetCDF/HDF via kerchunk, georeferenced video overlays, authenticated 3D Tiles, and a Layer builder for custom overlays. - Better visualization. Heatmap rendering, point clustering, and H3 hexagonal grids for spatial binning. - New analysis and routing. A Directions plugin, plus Spatial Join, Select by Value, and Select by Location vector tools. - Print and share. A print layout composer that exports your map to PNG or PDF. - Work faster. A command palette (Ctrl/Cmd + K), global keyboard shortcuts, and undo/redo for layer and style operations. - Built for everyone. New internationalization framework, an accessibility pass with automated axe checks, an installable offline-capable PWA web build, React error boundaries, and Playwright end-to-end tests. Try the live demo: Star it on GitHub: Docs and roadmap: Release notes: #GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #MapLibre #WebGIS #DuckDB #GeoLibre

GeoLibre v1.2.0 is here! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. One application that runs everywhere: in your web browser, as a native desktop app, on your phone, and inside a Jupyter notebook. No account, no server, no cost. Everything runs locally and your data stays private. This release packs in 35+ pull requests of new capabilities. A few highlights: - Run SQL right in the browser. The SQL Workspace pairs DuckDB Spatial with a new in-browser PostGIS engine (PGlite), so you can query layers, local files, and remote URLs without a server. - A smarter attribute table. Add fields, run a field calculator, and explore your data with a built-in Charts panel (histogram, scatter, bar, line, and box plots). - More ways to add data. OpenStreetMap PBF extracts, Cloud-Optimized NetCDF/HDF via kerchunk, georeferenced video overlays, authenticated 3D Tiles, and a Layer builder for custom overlays. - Better visualization. Heatmap rendering, point clustering, and H3 hexagonal grids for spatial binning. - New analysis and routing. A Directions plugin, plus Spatial Join, Select by Value, and Select by Location vector tools. - Print and share. A print layout composer that exports your map to PNG or PDF. - Work faster. A command palette (Ctrl/Cmd + K), global keyboard shortcuts, and undo/redo for layer and style operations. - Built for everyone. New internationalization framework, an accessibility pass with automated axe checks, an installable offline-capable PWA web build, React error boundaries, and Playwright end-to-end tests. Try the live demo: Star it on GitHub: Docs and roadmap: Release notes: #GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #MapLibre #WebGIS #DuckDB #GeoLibre

Qiusheng Wu

40,407 views • 3 months ago

Planetary Mapping in the Browser with GeoLibre! Web mapping just left Earth orbit. GeoLibre, the open-source cloud-native GIS platform, now maps nine more worlds beyond Mars and the Moon: - Mercury - Venus - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (Jupiter's Galilean moons) - Titan (Saturn's largest moon) - Pluto and Charon You can browse each one right in your browser, with no install required. A few things I'm excited about under the hood: The imagery comes from USGS Astrogeology, which publishes these mosaics only in an equirectangular projection. MapLibre renders Web Mercator, so GeoLibre reprojects each tile to Web Mercator on the fly at the edge, with no pre-processing and no giant downloads. Every body carries its own radius. Switch to the Moon or Pluto and your distance, area, and scale-bar measurements use that world's geometry instead of Earth's, so the numbers are actually right. A planet switcher in the Layers panel lets you hop between Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the rest with one click. Whether you are teaching planetary science, prototyping a mission map, or just curious what Titan looks like next to a scale bar, it is all a click away. Try it out: - Launch GeoLibre Web: - GitHub: - Documentation: Thanks to USGS Astrogeology and OpenPlanetaryMap for making this data open. #GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #PlanetaryScience #MapLibre #WebGIS #GeoLibre #Astronomy

Planetary Mapping in the Browser with GeoLibre! Web mapping just left Earth orbit. GeoLibre, the open-source cloud-native GIS platform, now maps nine more worlds beyond Mars and the Moon: - Mercury - Venus - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (Jupiter's Galilean moons) - Titan (Saturn's largest moon) - Pluto and Charon You can browse each one right in your browser, with no install required. A few things I'm excited about under the hood: The imagery comes from USGS Astrogeology, which publishes these mosaics only in an equirectangular projection. MapLibre renders Web Mercator, so GeoLibre reprojects each tile to Web Mercator on the fly at the edge, with no pre-processing and no giant downloads. Every body carries its own radius. Switch to the Moon or Pluto and your distance, area, and scale-bar measurements use that world's geometry instead of Earth's, so the numbers are actually right. A planet switcher in the Layers panel lets you hop between Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the rest with one click. Whether you are teaching planetary science, prototyping a mission map, or just curious what Titan looks like next to a scale bar, it is all a click away. Try it out: - Launch GeoLibre Web: - GitHub: - Documentation: Thanks to USGS Astrogeology and OpenPlanetaryMap for making this data open. #GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #PlanetaryScience #MapLibre #WebGIS #GeoLibre #Astronomy

Qiusheng Wu

10,395 views • 2 months ago

GeoLibre v3.0.0 is here! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. It runs everywhere you do, in the web browser, on the desktop, on mobile, and inside Jupyter notebooks, all while keeping your data local and private. This release landed 95 pull requests from 11 contributors, and 5 people made their first contribution to GeoLibre. Thank you to everyone who filed an issue, reviewed a change, or sent a patch. Our first major release makes the Cesium 3D globe a full rendering engine for the whole workspace, brings time-dynamic CZML scenes and native KML to the globe, and lets you save your edits straight back to ArcGIS Feature Services. What's new in v3.0.0 - Cesium as your main map: switch the entire workspace between MapLibre 2D and Cesium 3D from the View menu, and the choice is saved with your project. - Nearly every layer on the globe: COGs, PMTiles, MBTiles, vector tiles, ArcGIS services, I3S scene layers, LiDAR point clouds, and Gaussian splats all render in 3D, with extruded polygons and true elevation for 3D vectors. - Dynamic 3D scenes: load CZML for orbits, trajectories, and moving objects that play along the globe clock, open KML and KMZ with their original styling, and add Cesium Ion assets such as OSM Buildings by id. - Your tools work in 3D too: screenshots, print layouts, video and camera tours, the Elevation Profile, and the Sun, Atmosphere, Flight Simulator, and weather plugins. - ArcGIS write-back: edit a Feature Service layer in GeoLibre and save additions, changes, and deletions back to the service. - Editable SVG print layouts: export a layout and fine-tune the title, legend, and scale bar in Inkscape or Illustrator. - Smarter rasters and new data sources: viewport-based raster stretch, persistent layer filters from Select by Expression, a Portolan catalog browser, OGC CSW catalog search, and a USGS NLDI panel for tracing river networks. Try it out - Launch GeoLibre Web: - GitHub: - Documentation: - Release notes: #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource #CesiumJS #3DMapping #MapLibre #GeoLibre

Qiusheng Wu

63,952 views • 18 days ago

Introducing powered by Over the Reality. FreeGaussian is a new way to transform your existing photos, videos, and 360 captures for free into high-quality 3D Gaussian splats, directly in your browser. Whether you already have: ↳ a 360 recording captured with any 360 camera ↳ a set of photos ↳ or even a simple video from a place you visited you can now turn it into a photorealistic 3D Gaussian splat. Just go to upload your content, and let the reconstruction happen. Once it’s ready, you can download your 3D Gaussian splat and point cloud, and use them across your own projects, pipelines, or applications.

Introducing powered by Over the Reality. FreeGaussian is a new way to transform your existing photos, videos, and 360 captures for free into high-quality 3D Gaussian splats, directly in your browser. Whether you already have: ↳ a 360 recording captured with any 360 camera ↳ a set of photos ↳ or even a simple video from a place you visited you can now turn it into a photorealistic 3D Gaussian splat. Just go to upload your content, and let the reconstruction happen. Once it’s ready, you can download your 3D Gaussian splat and point cloud, and use them across your own projects, pipelines, or applications.

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86,340 views • 5 months ago