<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">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 class="">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><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><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Andrew Bell<br><a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a></div>
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