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Howard Butler

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Point clouds. Open source. PDAL, GDAL, Entwine, COPC.io, libspatialindex, and others. non-contributor corporate entity leading Hobu, Inc.

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NumFOCUS @numfocus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Season 2 of Give Me 5 is LIVE. First up: @howardbutler.com on why open source software is foundational for modern AI. Watch now → youtu.be/gFzNCoQaBfo
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
#GDAL just a friendly bump take a few minutes for the GDAL 2025 user survey to help focus GDAL Sponsorship Program activities. your opinions and feedback make a difference. Linked to from this issue, and there's also a link to last year's results: github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...
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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
2025 GDAL User Survey is now active for the entire month of December! Visit gdal.org/survey/ & tell the project how you use it, where you get help, what it should do in the future, & how/if it should use LLMs going forward. (optionally) give us your email, we'll even enter you to win a GDAL t-shirt!
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2025 GDAL User Survey
In 2024, the GDAL User Survey solicited feedback to help focus GDAL Sponsorship Program activities. Your contribution mattered. Last years' results triggered the project to embark on the GDAL CLI Mode...
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 01/12/2025
2025 GDAL User Survey is now up at gdal.org/survey Optionally give us your email for a chance to win a new GDAL t-shirt!
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2025 GDAL User Survey
In 2024, the GDAL User Survey solicited feedback to help focus GDAL Sponsorship Program activities. Your contribution mattered. Last years' results triggered the project to embark on the GDAL CLI Mode...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 23/06/2025
Watch @howardbutler.com's #CNG2025 talk on cloud-optimized point clouds & how data chunking & #cloudnativegeo formats are reshaping how we process and interact with point clouds at scale 💡 "Can we do for point clouds [what COG did for rasters?]" Short answer: yes. ▶️ Watch now: youtu.be/4cB4mJjrkZU
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[CNG 2025] Data Gravity and Point Clouds – Howard Butler
YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 19/06/2025
I am pleased to announce the release of PDAL 2.9.0 github.com/PDAL/PDAL/re... Goodies include GDAL VSI support by Norman Barker, FileSpec support by Thomas Swamy, filters.supervoxel by Bram Ton, SPZ read/write, `ogr` option for filtering, and greatly enhanced readers.tindex support by Isaac Bell.
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Release 2.9.0 · PDAL/PDAL
Changes of Note GDAL VSI Support @normanb added support for GDAL VSI in #4647. It is now possible to use VSI to control access to remote content. Any /vsi-prefixed file path will go through GDAL's...
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 06/06/2025
A toblerity
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 27/05/2025
The new GDAL 3.11 CLI has context-aware bash completion and spelling suggestions – options, formats, sub-commands, and more! No more fumbling for inconsistent names or orderings. Join us at the GDAL CLI Deep Dive webinar on June 3rd at 1400 UTC to learn more. numfocus-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Jed Sundwall @jed.co · 12/02/2025
We're seeking funding to take @source.coop to the next level.
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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 24/01/2025
Page from John Snyder’s Projection notebook that dates from when he was 16 years old. blogs.loc.gov/maps/2015/11...
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 23/12/2024
The GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes for December 19th, 2024 are now available at lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gd...
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[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 22/12/2024
Dan Baston from the GDAL Maintenance Team posted the results of the first GDAL User Survey gdal.org/en/stable/co... The key takeaways were: * Most people use GeoTIFF for rasters * The CLI is very inconsistent and frustrating * Two people claimed to be Frank Warmerdam
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2024 GDAL user survey — GDAL documentation
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 02/12/2024
Dan Baston from the GDAL project wrote up some interesting results of the first GDAL Users Survey which you can now read at gdal.org/en/stable/co...
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2024 GDAL user survey — GDAL documentation
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 28/10/2024
Frank Warmerdam has already filled in his GDAL survey. Please help us by filling out yours.
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 28/10/2024
The first ever GDAL Users Survey is now open for feedback at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... The survey is an attempt to provide structured guidance for the maintenance program to focus its efforts in the coming year. Please contribute and help us circulate it!
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2024 GDAL User Survey
In 2024, for the first time ever, the GDAL project is soliciting feedback to help focus GDAL Sponsorship Program activities. The survey will provide guidance about priorities for the program's resourc...
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