<div dir="ltr">FWIW - I built hexer and rebuilt pdal w/ hexer and now I'm getting the same error that I get when using <b style="font-size:12.8px"> --fast_boundary</b><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"> PDAL: GDAL failure (1) "/gis/Wyoming/22_Teton/DEM/NAVD88/Lidar2015/Alta/LAS_1.3/Alta_0101.las" not recognised as an available field<div>"Alta_0101.las" is the first file in the directory. I tried on two other directories with data from different sources and got the same error referring to the first file in the directory.<br><br><div>The results from<br> $<b>pdal info Alta_0101.las</b><div>Look pretty reasonable, not that I know anything about Lidar data, but the values shown are all within ranges that I expect for my coordinate system.<b><br></b></div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the advise so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Rich</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Richard Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.greenwood@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.greenwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Again, Thanks so much for the replies. Trying with a new (not an existing) shapefile I get the same error:<br> $<b>pdal tindex --tindex newindex.shp *.las --fast_boundary</b> <br><span class=""> PDAL: GDAL failure (1) "/gis/Wyoming/22_Teton/DEM/NAVD88/Lidar2015/Alta/LAS_1.3/Alta_0101.las" not recognised as an available field.<br><br></span>"/gis/Wyoming/22_Teton/DEM/NAVD88/Lidar2015/Alta/LAS_1.3/Alta_0101.las" is the first file in the directory so it's weird that it's complaining about it being a "field". <br><br></div>A new shapefile is created with four fields and but no rows:<br><div>$<b>ogrinfo newindex.shp newindex -so</b><br>INFO: Open of `newindex.shp'<span class=""><br> using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.<br></span>Layer name: newindex<br>Metadata:<br> DBF_DATE_LAST_UPDATE=2016-04-05<br>Geometry: Polygon<br>Feature Count: 0<br>Extent: (0.000000, 0.000000) - (0.000000, 0.000000)<br>Layer SRS WKT:<br>GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",<br> DATUM["WGS_1984",<br> SPHEROID["WGS_84",6378137,298.257223563]],<br> PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],<br> UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]<br>location: String (254.0)<br>srs: String (254.0)<br>modified: Date (10.0)<br>created: Date (10.0)<br><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Rich<br><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Andrew Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Andrew Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Richard Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.greenwood@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.greenwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>All -<br><br></div>Thanks for the swift replies.<br><div><div><br>Just the getting the bounding box is all I need so I tried using --fast_boundary:<br> $<b>pdal tindex --fast_boundary --tindex tindex.shp *.las</b><br> PDAL: GDAL failure (1) "/gis/Wyoming/22_Teton/DEM/NAVD88/Lidar2015/Alta/LAS_1.3/Alta_0101.las" not recognised as an available field.<br><br> tindex.shp is an exiting, empty shapefile: <br> $<b>ogrinfo index.shp index -so</b><br> INFO: Open of `index.shp'<br> using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.<br> . . . <br></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>If PDAL can open the output index file, it tries to use it and assumes that it has all the necessary fields to accommodate the output. If you had an existing, empty shapefile, this isn't going to be the case. It happens to error when it tries to write the filename to a field that we normally create. I'll try to get some better error checking/info for this.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">-- <br><div>Andrew Bell<br><a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a></div>
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