[pdal] tindex creating empty geometry column

[Andrew Bell]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> Adam,
>
> We're just using OGR to write the SQLite file, which I think defaults to
> using spatialite, but I'm not exactly sure.
>
> You might try writing to a shapefile or something to see if it is merely
> the OGR driver falling over:
>
> > $ pdal tindex act_8ppm_index4326.shp  "LAS/AHD/*.las" -f "ESRI
> Shapefile" --lyr_name "pdal" --t_srs "EPSG:4326" —fast_boundary
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Howard
>
> > On Feb 23, 2017, at 7:17 PM, Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > I’m making tile indexes for a set of LAS tiles, and getting no geometry
> column:
> >
> > # pdal tindex act_8ppm_index4326.sqlite "LAS/AHD/*.las" -f "SQLite"
> --lyr_name "pdal" --t_srs "EPSG:4326" —fast_boundary
> >
> > # sqlite3 act_8ppm_index4326.sqlite
> >
> > sqlite> PRAGMA table_info(pdal);
> > 0|OGC_FID|INTEGER|0||1
> > 1|GEOMETRY|BLOB|0||0
> > 2|location|VARCHAR(254)|0||0
> > 3|srs|VARCHAR(254)|0||0
> > 4|modified|TIMESTAMP|0||0
> > 5|created|TIMESTAMP|0||0
> >
> > sqlite> select * from pdal;
> > 34||/mnt/pointcloud/act_all/8ppm/LAS/AHD/ACT2015_8ppm-C3-
> AHD_6886100_55_0002_0002.las|EPSG:4326|2016-11-25T01:08:31|
> 2017-02-07T00:02:54
> > 35||/mnt/pointcloud/act_all/8ppm/LAS/AHD/ACT2015_8ppm-C3-
> AHD_6866076_55_0002_0002.las|EPSG:4326|2016-11-25T00:53:45|
> 2017-02-07T00:02:54
> > …
> >
> > …here, the second column GEOMETRY is empty - it should contain a blob of
> geometry data.
> >
> > Where have I gone astray?
> >
> > On this topic - do hooks exist in the tindex system to extract these
> data (tile boundaries) from a postGIS store?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Adam
> >
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You might also try running with the log level turned up:

pdal tindex --verbose=Debug ...

-- 
Andrew Bell
andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
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