[pdal] Request: add option for filename column

[Andrew Bell]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Tom van Tilburg <tom.van.tilburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Considering an earlier discussion about mimicking the behaviour of GDAL in
> PDAL (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/pdal/2015-September/000744.html),
> I had 2 ideas about improved dbase functionality:
>
> 1. Give the option to add filenames to the patches
> An extra column that gives the name of the original laz file would
> tremendously improve the administration of importing and updating your
> pointcloud data. Imagine you receive a new lasfile with updated points (new
> classification for instance), you would like to replace only those points
> in your dbase, but there is no way to tell which patch originated from
> which file.
>

Could one not store this in a separate table along with the PCID and then
join?

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