<div dir="ltr">> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What I'm still wishing is that laszip would support pointcloud - or that PDAL would support .PTX...:-)</span><br><br><div>... in other words: What would be more straight forward to implement (for me/us)?</div>
<div><br></div><div>-S.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/11 Stefan Keller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sfkeller@gmail.com" target="_blank">sfkeller@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Martin<div><br></div><div>I did not realize that pointzip is based on laszip since pointzip mentions only that it "(... uses the LASzip compression algorithm)".</div>
<div>And I did not find a documentation that mentions that laszip supports PTX.</div>
<div>I'm actually very comfortable with laszip being a command line tool.<br></div><div>What I'm still wishing is that laszip would support pointcloud - or thatt PDAL would support .PTX...:-)</div><div><br></div>
<div>
Yours, Stefan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/11 Martin Isenburg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.isenburg@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.isenburg@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello.<br>
<br>
you can use the pointzip.exe tool, but that is mainly meant to "take<br>
the edge off" as it has been my experience that the terrestrial<br>
scanner folks are very GUI centric and these folks seem reluctant to<br>
enter the command-line world.<br>
<br>
instead of using pointzip.exe through the GUI you can also use<br>
<br>
laszip -i in.pts -ipts -o out.laz<br>
<br>
or<br>
<br>
laszip -i in.ptx -iptx -o out.laz<br>
<br>
and the extra PTS or PTX information will be stored in an additional<br>
VLR record so it could be recovered if needed (for the PTX it is<br>
likely needed if there are any values in the translation or rotation<br>
matrices)<br>
<br>
Is pointzip.exe being used much in the terrestrial world? I got a lot<br>
of feedback after release but it has died down since.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
Martin<br>
</font></span><br>
PS: The web-site <a href="http://pointzip.org" target="_blank">http://pointzip.org</a> is really meant to house the<br>
"generic" compressor someday and I am still waiting vor Dave (USACE)<br>
or Paul (Elephant) to get back to me on that.<br>
<div><div><br>
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Stefan Keller <<a href="mailto:sfkeller@gmail.com" target="_blank">sfkeller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Howard (and hello to Mateusz too)<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your replies. I'm new to converting LIDAR data (I'm rather used<br>
> to vector and raster conversion) but I thought I'm not the first one to<br>
> process FARO Focus3d data.<br>
><br>
> So my hope relies on a PTX->LAS conversion using Martin's pointzip before<br>
> importing LAS->PostgreSQL/PostGIS/pointcloud).<br>
><br>
> Or do you suggest to go back to the FARO device/software (which I don't have<br>
> right now) and export to another format, which can be read then directly<br>
> into PostgreSQL by PDAL (or another tool)?<br>
><br>
> Yours, Stefan<br>
> (Maintainer of <a href="http://geoconverter.hsr.ch" target="_blank">http://geoconverter.hsr.ch</a>)<br>
><br>
><br>
> 2013/10/10 Howard Butler <<a href="mailto:howard@hobu.co" target="_blank">howard@hobu.co</a>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Stefan Keller <<a href="mailto:sfkeller@gmail.com" target="_blank">sfkeller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > Hi,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I got data from a FARO Focus3d LIDAR scanner I think in PTS or PTX<br>
>> > format.<br>
>> > Does anybody have experiences in reading these formats - or at least<br>
>> > converting them to LAS?<br>
>> > I found pointzip [1] but I'd like to use PDAL since my target is<br>
>> > PostgreSQL (pointcloud extension) and PDAL supports writing to this<br>
>> > database.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Yours, Stefan<br>
>> ><br>
>> > [1] <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/pointzip/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/pointzip/</a><br>
>><br>
>> PDAL doesn't support PTS or PTX at this time. The FARO folks would most<br>
>> likely need to provide either a binary API so that a PDAL driver could be<br>
>> written for their format(s), or alternatively, some sort of document(s)<br>
>> describing the binary layout of the formats so that a driver could be<br>
>> written.<br>
>><br>
>> Sorry I can't be of more help.<br>
>><br>
>> Howard<br>
>><br>
>><br>
><br>
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