Personally, I'd be more than happy to buy a point cloud workbench, built in the same mold, as long as it remains open enough that I can easily extend it and use it as a platform to build on top of. To a certain extent, the same could even be said for ESRI's ArcGIS. Although a proprietary application, it is built on top of, and benefits from, a whole host of open source libraries. I'll also point toward Houdini, the other software I mentioned in the last thread. It's also worth noting that most of PDAL's development is done by a for-profit company. PDAL is still relatively young, so off hand I don't know of any examples of people doing that publicly, but I'm sure it's happening at a consulting level. These might be things like custom format readers, specialized exploitation algorithms, or entire processing pipelines. PDAL allows application developers to provide proprietary extensions that act as stages in processing pipelines.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |