QGIS > v3.18 supports point clouds through PDAL. Gentoo may support QGIS built with PDAL support via USE flag. QGIS built with PDAL can be used to work with point cloud data, i.e. to stream EPT point clouds from https://usgs.entwine.io/
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f007a2b124b36813ad00db536aa082e433651c51 commit f007a2b124b36813ad00db536aa082e433651c51 Author: Thomas Bettler <thomas.bettler@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-02-20 09:51:22 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-02-20 23:11:40 +0000 sci-geosciences/qgis: add pdal for point clouds Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/830003 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/23526 Signed-off-by: Thomas Bettler <thomas.bettler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> sci-geosciences/qgis/metadata.xml | 1 + sci-geosciences/qgis/qgis-3.22.4.ebuild | 4 +++- sci-geosciences/qgis/qgis-9999.ebuild | 6 ++++-- sci-libs/pdal/metadata.xml | 12 ++++++++---- sci-libs/pdal/pdal-2.3.0.ebuild | 6 +++--- 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c3ec8e1563acdc7509d0889be2b027d12a7de9fc commit c3ec8e1563acdc7509d0889be2b027d12a7de9fc Author: Thomas Bettler <thomas.bettler@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-02-20 09:48:45 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-02-20 23:08:52 +0000 sci-libs/pdal: add pdal library to work with point clouds (i.e. in qgis) Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/830003 Bug: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/23526 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/830002 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/23525 Signed-off-by: Thomas Bettler <thomas.bettler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> sci-libs/pdal/Manifest | 1 + .../pdal-2.3.0-fix_cmake_install_location.patch | 17 +++++ .../pdal/files/pdal-2.3.0-upgrade_cmake_min.patch | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++ sci-libs/pdal/metadata.xml | 19 ++++++ sci-libs/pdal/pdal-2.3.0.ebuild | 48 ++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 162 insertions(+)
