# Entwine

Canonical: https://gisforweb.com/tools/entwine/

Lossless point-cloud organization library and CLI for building spatially indexed EPT datasets.

Entwine is a C++ library and command-line tool that organizes very large point-cloud datasets as Entwine Point Tile (EPT) octrees. It reads formats supported by PDAL and writes lossless EPT datasets to local or remote storage, including Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage. Its CLI provides build, metadata, and merge operations.

## Details

- Type: library

- Categories: storage, data-processing, 3d

- Open source: Yes

- Pricing model: open-source

- License: LGPL-2.1-only

- Platforms: linux, macos, windows, docker

## Features

- Indexes massive point clouds into spatial octrees

- Reads every format supported by PDAL

- Preserves points, metadata, and numeric precision

- Writes EPT data to local or remote storage

- Supports LAZ, binary, and Zstandard payloads

- Provides build, info, and merge commands

## Project sources

- Website: https://entwine.io/

- Documentation: https://entwine.io/en/latest/

- Repository: https://github.com/connormanning/entwine

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