Download and Display Seamless Lidar Point Clouds for the United States

This is a super simple, super fast method for downloading seamless lidar point clouds. If you use lidar data in the United States this will totally improve your workflows!
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Step-by-step instructions: opensourceoptions.com/blog/do...

[@eric_eagle]

"3DEP Index Query failed: Error: Network Error"..... "Error: timeout of 10000ms exceeded"..... "Loading failed" Seems like USGS needs to give their site a little TLC. But the workflow is pretty sweet! I would def load/analyze this stuff in QT Modeler vs QGIS though (or ArcGIS for that matter). I know QTM is not open source but the performance+feature set is so radically better than almost any other client, that if you need to work with Lidar regularly it will pay for itself in time saved. That said I am not bashing on QGIS, it's incredible what the QGIS devs have done -- it is just not ready for professional/enterprise, high volume/short-suspense type work.

[@geospatialschool]

Shoot! Welcome to government infrastructure. I hope that not everyone is having this problem. I did go back and figure out why I was having so much trouble with 3D View. I'm making a video about that later this week. And I'm going to do some videos about lidar analysis with PDAL (which, if you haven't tried it is super smooth, easy, repeatable).