[pdal] reader text file

[Andrew Bell]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 25, 2015, at 6:29 PM, Jed Frechette <jedfrechette at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > +1 for a text file reader. As much as I hate them, dealing with text
> files is one of the main things that keeps me from using PDAL as much as I
> would like.
> >
> > For the interface it seems like just mirroring the writers.text Options
> would be a good start. On top of that being able to skip a certain number
> of header lines and set a spatialreference would also be great.
>
> I think I may take a crack at this in a slightly unconventional way -- I
> will implement a readers.python. The idea would be that you write a python
> script that turns your text file, whatever it is, into a numpy array, and
> then we'll just suck in that numpy array into PDAL with the types that are
> specified.
>
> For simple formats, the Python script will be super simple, and for
> complex stuff, well, PDAL doesn't have to be responsible for it ;)
>
> I can see this having other uses too. It doesn't mean there won't ever be
> a readers.text that is dedicated, but it should give us a stopgap in the
> interim.
>

I think we already have this.  It's called filters.programmable.

-- 
Andrew Bell
andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
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