[pdal] Request: add option for filename column

[Paul Ramsey]

Yes, that’s how it should be done. Or, at least adding a pc_files ( file_id, file_name ) table and a file_id column to the target pointcloud table. 
P 

On October 5, 2015 at 5:17:43 AM, Andrew Bell (andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com) wrote:

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?

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