Very cool. I have some huge point clouds that this could really help visualization for.

One question: the stack wiki page lists the licenses as BSD, GPL and MIT, but each of the individual package manifests just lists BSD. I didn't see any copyright notices in the actual files, so it's unclear which components are under what license. Could you clear that up?

P.S. I tried to file a ticket for this, but even when logged into KForge, I was not allowed to create a new ticket following the link on the wiki page. Also it looks like the main project page is also inaccesible: http://kforge.ros.org/projects/megatree/ just returns a "URL not found on this service" error page.

- Eric

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Eitan Marder-Eppstein <eitan@willowgarage.com> wrote:
Hey all,

A number of us at WG have been working on ways to store and visualize very large amounts of point cloud data. Until now, this has been an internal project, but we've decided to release our code Open Source to the ROS/PCL community. For anyone who wants to stream point clouds and visualize them remotely in a web browser, the code is definitely worth a look.

Key features are as follows:
  • Create an octree containing billions of points
  • Store octrees across a Hadoop cluster or on a local disk
  • Stream highly compressed points to a thin client
  • View billions of points in your WebGL enabled web browser
You can find basic documentation here: http://ros.org/wiki/megatree
Also, for those who want to be able to import from PCD files: http://ros.org/wiki/megatree_pcl

And a "Getting Started" tutorial here: http://ros.org/wiki/megatree/Tutorials/GettingStarted

Enjoy it and hope all is well,

Eitan

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