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Light Opensource |logo| PointCloud Server
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|unix_build| |license|

LOPoCS is a point cloud server written in
Python, allowing to load Point Cloud from a PostgreSQL database thanks to the ``pgpointcloud``
extension.

.. |logo| image:: docs/lopocs.png

The current version of LOPoCS provides a way to load Point Cloud from PostgreSQL to the following viewers:

* `Cesium `_ thanks to the `3DTiles `_ format
* `Potree viewer `_ : viewer with LAZ compressed data.

Note that LOPoCS is currently the only **3DTiles** server able to stream data from
`pgpointcloud `_. This
is possible thanks to the python module
`py3dtiles `_.

Developments are still going on to improve state-of-the-art algorithms and
performances.

`Video `_

`Online demonstration `_

Example using 3Dtiles/Cesium with data from `GrandLyon `_

.. image:: docs/grandlyon.png

.. contents::

.. section-numbering::

Main features
=============

* Command line tool to load data into PostgreSQL
* Swagger API
* Stream patches stored in PostgreSQL
* Greyhound protocol support
* 3DTiles standard support (partial)
* Produce ready to use examples with Potree and Cesium

Installation
============

Dependencies
------------

- python >= 3.4
- gdal development headers (libgdal-dev)
- pip (python3-pip)
- virtualenv (python3-virtualenv)
- `pgpointcloud `_ with lazperf enabled
- `Morton Postgres extension `_
- `PDAL `_ (used by the LOPoCS loader)

.. note:: The LOPoCS loader uses PDAL's "mortonorder" filter in "reverse" mode. The "reverse" mode was introduced in PDAL version 1.7.1, so make sure you use this version or higher.

From sources
------------

.. code-block:: bash

$ git clone https://github.com/Oslandia/lopocs
$ cd lopocs
$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv)$ pip install 'numpy==1.14.3'
(venv)$ pip install -e .

Configuration
=============

You will find an example of a configuration file for lopocs in ``conf/lopocs.sample.yml``

You have to copy it to ``conf/lopocs.yml`` and fill with your values, lopocs will load it
if this file exists.
Another alternative is to set up the ``LOPOCS_SETTINGS`` environment variable to locate your configuration file.

Usage
=====

Prepare database
----------------

.. code-block:: bash

$ createdb lopocs
$ psql -d lopocs -c 'create extension postgis'
$ psql -d lopocs -c 'create extension pointcloud'
$ psql -d lopocs -c 'create extension pointcloud_postgis'
$ psql -d lopocs -c 'create extension morton'

Lopocs CLI
----------

You can invoke lopocs in your virtualenv to show help and list available subcommands

.. code-block:: bash

$ cd lopocs
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv)$ lopocs

Check installation
------------------

.. code-block:: bash

(venv)$ lopocs check
Pdal ... 1.4.0
Pdal plugin pgpointcloud ... ok
PostgreSQL ... 9.6.3
PostGIS extension ... 2.3.1
PgPointcloud extension ... 1.1.0
PgPointcloud-PostGIS extension ... 1.0

Demo data
---------

.. code-block:: bash

(venv)$ mkdir demos
(venv)$ lopocs demo --work-dir demos/ --sample airport --cesium
(venv)$ lopocs serve

Copy/Paste the link at the end of the log in your browser and you will be able to see this:

.. image:: docs/airport.png

Swagger API
-----------

Each viewer has specific expectations and communication protocol. So, the API is built to meet these specific needs.

Currently, 2 kinds of formats are supported:

- 3DTiles
- Greyhound format (LAZ data with a footer indicating the number of points)

LOPoCS is able to stream data up to 2 viewers:

- Cesium with the 3DTiles format
- Potree viewer with the Greyhound format

LOPoCS provides its RESTful API through a Swagger UI by default on
``_

.. image:: docs/api.png

Run tests
=========

.. code-block:: bash

(venv)$ pip install .[dev]
(venv)$ py.test

Licence
=======

LGPL>2: `LICENSE `_.

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