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• COPC: Cloud Optimized Point Clouds for Streaming LiDAR

  Published:Aug 16, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

  A practical guide to COPC (Cloud Optimized Point Cloud), the LAZ 1.4 based format that lets you stream massive LiDAR datasets over HTTP without downloading them. Learn its internal structure, how to create COPC files with PDAL and Untwine, how to query them remotely from Python, and how it compares to Entwine's EPT format.