<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Presumably whatever made your container didn't keep the PROJ_DATA environment variable linkages. Set PROJ_DEBUG=ON in your environment and maybe it will complain with some clues.<div><br></div><div>This is not a PDAL problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Howard<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 20, 2025, at 4:55 PM, Dom Jaskierniak via pdal <pdal@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><a name="_Hlk14012828">Hi pdal users.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></a></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span>I recently built a singularity file (i.e. container using CI/CD in gitlab) using a definition file (def file) that install all dependencies for my project. I clone the PDAL repository and build it from source using cmake and installed the Python binding for PDAL. The container finished building but when I import pdal within the container I get:<br><br>>>> import pdal<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span>proj_create: Error -5 (unknown projection id)<br><br>I am assuming the error related to PROJ, and when PDAL creating a projection, but it can't recognize the specified projection ID.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span>I can provide the def file to show how I installed pdal if that helps? I have tried many things and help to solve would be appreciated?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span>Dom<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span><b><span style="color: rgb(19, 56, 128);">Dr Dom Jaskierniak<br>Senior Scientist (Remote Sensing and Landscape Sciences)</span></b></span><span><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(19, 56, 128);"><br><br></span></b></span><span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">Science, Economics and Insights Division| </span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water<br></span></span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(19, 56, 128);">M</span></b></span><span><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60);"> </span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">0498 206 030 | </span></span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(19, 56, 128);">E</span></b></span><span><span style="color: dimgray;"> </span></span><span><u><span><a href="mailto:dom.jaskierniak@environment.nsw.gov.au">dom.jaskierniak@environment.nsw.gov.au</a></span></u></span><span><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60);"><br></span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">Level 3, 6 Stewart Avenue, Newcastle, NSW, 2302<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; 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