maplibre-gl-lidar

LiDAR point clouds on the map

Maintained by Open Geospatial Solutions

A MapLibre GL JS control for viewing LiDAR point clouds (LAS, LAZ and streamed COPC) with deck.gl: color by elevation, intensity or classification, filter points, and hover to inspect them.

Live demo

maplibre-gl-lidar running on MapLibre GL JS in your browser

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Demo code

import { LidarControl } from "maplibre-gl-lidar";
import "maplibre-gl-lidar/style.css";
import type { PluginDemo } from "../types";

export default {
  center: [-123.075, 44.05], // Autzen Stadium, Eugene, Oregon
  zoom: 15,
  pitch: 60,
  async run({ map }) {
    // A LiDAR viewer panel: load, color, filter and pick points of a point cloud.
    const lidar = new LidarControl({
      title: "LiDAR Viewer",
      collapsed: true,
      pointSize: 2,
      colorScheme: "elevation",
    });
    map.addControl(lidar, "top-right");

    // A public Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (COPC), streamed by range requests.
    await lidar.loadPointCloud("https://s3.amazonaws.com/hobu-lidar/autzen-classified.copc.laz");
    lidar.flyToPointCloud();
  },
} satisfies PluginDemo;