[pdal] pgpointcloud writer compression

Andrew Bell andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 06:41:38 PDT 2018


Perhaps I misspoke. PDAL does no compression for pgpointcloud.  Perhaps
postgres does compression on its own.  We do set "dimensional" or "ght"
compression types in the pointcloud schema if they're set as options. We do
nothing with lazperf WRT pgpointcloud.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 6:17 AM, Lars <laasunde at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> Just to make sure I understand this, you are saying that pgpointcloud does
> not support laz compression?
>
> I am sure you know this but pgpointcloud must be built with LAZPERF enable
> in order to work.
>
> Do you know if a pgpointcloud ticket has been created for this problem?
>
> kind regards, Lars
>
> ------------------------------
> *Fra:* Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com>
> *Sendt:* torsdag 7. juni 2018 16.22
> *Til:* Lars
> *Kopi:* pdal at lists.osgeo.org
> *Emne:* Re: [pdal] pgpointcloud writer compression
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Lars <laasunde at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does pdal have any plans to support laz compression for pgpointcloud
> writer? This compression type is support by PostGIS pgpointcloud extension.
>
>
> This has been broken from the beginning - there is no compression support
> at all despite advertising it. I don't know the history. It predates my
> involvement.
>
> If you'd like to make a pull request with some code, that would be great.
>
> --
> Andrew Bell
> andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
>



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Andrew Bell
andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
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