The Course Terrain Tool is a desktop application designed to automate lidar/terrain sourcing and creation for building OPCD courses.
- 🔎 Search multiple sources of free lidar data
- 🚀 Automatically merge, crop, and convert LAZ or DEM files
- 🏔️ Outputs RAW terrain height-maps for Unity
- 🗺️ Generate cropped satellite overlay images
Warning
This project is still in the (very) early stages of development! Please report any bugs on the issues page.
| Available | Source | Formats |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | USGS National Map | LAZ, DEM |
| ⏳ | NOAA Digital Coast (coming soon!) | LAZ, DEM |
We're continually working on adding new sources to this list. If you have a specific source you would like to see added, you can request it by opening an issue.
- Download the latest version of the app from our releases page.
- Launch the app
- You may be prompted to install some required tools (PDAL, GDAL) using our setup wizard. Learn more about the dependencies.
- Set inner course area (in kilometers)
- Optionally set the outer course area (in kilometers)
- Search for LiDAR data from a variety of sources
- Set your raster resolution (in meters)
- Click to export all files to a new course folder
Warning
Note: Installing the required tools in-app using conda-forge requires about 5GB of free disk space. We're working on trying to compile custom, smaller versions of PDAL and GDAL directly and bundle them in the app or installer. But until then, you'll can either manually install PDAL and GDAL yourself, or use the wizard within the app to install them.
To help debug, sometimes we'll ask for logs. These can be found at the following paths:
- Windows:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Course Terrain Tool\logs - Mac:
~/Library/Logs/Course Terrain Tool
If you want to see live logs as the app runs, you can enter the following command:
On Windows:
Get-Content "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Roaming\Course Terrain Tool\logs\main.log" -Wait -Tail 30On Mac:
tail -f "$HOME/Library/Logs/Course Terrain Tool/main.log"