Feature Request: Add tabs for Mesh and Point data types

[Saijin-Naib]

With MDAL and PDAL now being mainlined and bundled with QGIS, I think it'd be great if LTA could expose them as tabs for loading operations, much like Vector and Raster are now.

Thanks for the incredible tool, German!

[gacarrillor]

Great proposal @Saijin-Naib and thanks for your words.
Would you like to help us with a mockup?

[Saijin-Naib]

Mockup how? In QT Designer (That'll be a challenge), or more a conceptual mockup using faked screenshots/composites?

[gacarrillor]

In fact, the tool you feel comfortable with. It could be QT designer, but it could also be https://balsamiq.cloud/ or any graphic tool as well.

[gacarrillor]

@Saijin-Naib, could you point me to sample data so that I can do some tests?

I'm not super-familiar with these formats, so if you know about different extensions that should be supported for Mesh and Point data, just let me know.

[Saijin-Naib]

Supported formats as of QGIS 3.18:

Mesh:

2DM Mesh File - *.2dm
3Di Results - results_3di.nc
AnuGA - *.sww
ESRI TIN - *.adf
Flo2D - *.nc
GDAL GRIB - *.grb, *.grb2, *.bin, *.grib, *.grib1, *.grib2
GDAL NetCDF - *.nc
HEC-RAS 2D - *.hdf
Selafin File - *.slf
Stanford PLY ASCII Mesh - *.ply
TUFLOW FV - *.nc
UGRID Results - *.nc
XMS TIN Mesh File - *.tin

Point Cloud:

Entwine Point Tile - ept.json
PDAL Point Clouds - *.las, *.laz

[gacarrillor]

@Saijin-Naib, would you be interested in helping us doing some tests in the coming days/weeks?
Support for Point Clouds is being proposed in PR #38.

[Saijin-Naib]

Yeah, absolutely! How would I be able to test and help?

[gacarrillor]

Great! Thank you @Saijin-Naib
Please find attached a dev version of the plugin, containing the Point Cloud support.
Let us know if you find something unexpected or if you have any suggestion.

loadthemall.zip

[gacarrillor]

Gentle ping @Saijin-Naib

[Saijin-Naib]

I am so sorry!

So far, it is not finding the files.

However, this might be a Linux/flatpak/permissions thing.

[gacarrillor]

Thank you @Saijin-Naib, could you please try with this new dev version? Any chance to test it on Windows?

LoadThemAll.zip

[likwid101]

I'm on version 3.34.3 and can't get the point could tab to load. I'm not sure what to change to make it work. Any thoughts?

[gacarrillor]

@likwid101, point cloud support for Load Them All has not yet been released to the public. It's still a beta release.
Would you like to participate in some tests or you prefer to wait for the public release?

[gacarrillor]

FYI, I just created a beta version with proper support for ept.json files.

LoadThemAll.zip