crowd funding – North Road

Posted on November 11, 2026November 11, 20263D, 3D Tiles, Crowdfund, QGIS

Our next QGIS 3D Crowdfunder with Lutra Consulting – QGIS 3D: Reality Capture, Animation & More

At North Road, we are passionate supporters of all things spatial and open source. We love it when this gives us the chance to work with new and exciting technologies, and developing 3D functionality in QGIS is just that! We are partnering again with our brilliant friends at Lutra Consulting to develop some really neat features focusing on reality capture technology, improved 3D visuals, and upgrading animation support. And there’s more! We also plan to add atmospheric scattering to create more realistic looking 3D scenes and make life easier by adding in scene presets, close various gaps in the identify tool and adding support for gamepads for easier navigation. Our financial goal to make this happen is €85 000 (about […]

Posted on August 24, 2020January 4, 2021QGIS

Announcing the Point Cloud Data in QGIS Crowdfunding Campaign!

With the recent advancements in LiDAR survey technology and photogrammetry there has been a huge demand in capturing and storing point cloud data. Point cloud data are vector in nature, but are usually orders of magnitude larger than a standard vector layer. Typical vector datasets range from thousands to millions of features, while point clouds range from millions to billions or even trillions of points. Due to this sheer number of points a completely different approach to visualise, analyse and store point clouds is needed in a GIS platform. Integrating a point cloud viewer in a desktop GIS application adds a lot of value for users compared to a specialised and dedicated point cloud viewer: Point cloud data can be […]