His fingers flew. He right-clicked the layer, went to , and opened the Symbology tab. He changed the point size to 0.2 and colored by intensity. Still a mess. He remembered a trick from a conference: use the CloudOptimized Point Cloud format. But 3.22 didn’t handle that natively—yet.
Alistair had started the day with a fresh cup of black coffee and a prayer. He launched QGIS 3.22—codenamed "Białowieża" by its developers, after Europe’s last primeval forest. The splash screen glowed, promising a stable, long-term release. “Don’t fail me now, old friend,” he muttered. qgis 3.22
Then came the trouble. The LiDAR .LAS file loaded, but the point cloud looked like angry confetti. He opened the —a vast library of algorithms that had saved his skin more times than he could count. He searched for "Noise filter." Nothing worked. The council wanted a clean Digital Elevation Model (DEM) by noon. His fingers flew