[pdal] Trouble reading CyArk .e57 point clouds

Andrew Bell andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 12:16:13 PDT 2020


If you can make a smaller version of a file available, I'll take a look.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 2:40 PM Carl Godkin <cgodkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to PDAL so I hope this isn't a seriously dumb question.  I looked
> in the mailing list archives and under Issues on GitHub so maybe it's not.
>
> CyArk makes their data available in .e57 format and I was hoping to use
> PDAL to play with some of them.
>
> However, for both of the .e57 files I've downloaded so far, "pdal info"
> says simply
>
> PDAL: readers.e57: 21 : fileName=USP_USS_Pampanito_Complete.e57 offset=0
> whence=2 result=-2118361088
>
> and exits.  I tried "pdal translate" also and its verbose flag tells me
> that the "libpdal_plugin_reader_e57.dll" is loaded and initialized before
> exiting with the same message.
>
> My environment is Windows 10 with PDAL installed following the
> instructions under the "Workshop" section on the pdal.io site.  (Using
> miniconda, created a virtual environment, installing PDAL, etc.)
>
> pdal --version is "pdal 2.0.1 (git-version: Release)"
>
> These files are really big by the way.  The downloads are .zip files which
> expand to 7Gb and up!
>
> I was able to open this file in Cloud Compare so it's not corrupt, and
> I've tried another file from their site as well with the same results.
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks a lot!
>
> carl
>
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