[pdal] Documentation on using PDAL

[Andrew Bell]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:06 AM, César Martínez Izquierdo <
cesar.izq at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> The "Writing with PDAL" tutorial [http://www.pdal.io/tutorial/writing.html]
> gives me some light on the writing part, but I still don't see if it really
> matches our use case. If I correctly understand the tutorial, you have to
> first create a PointTable and a PointView, which I guess are created
> on-memory.
>
> Is there a way to "stream" the points to the writer? Otherwise I believe
> this approach is not feasible for writing big LAS files. Would be possible
> to create the writer on "append" mode and to feed it with several
> PointViews on a loop for instance?. Will this approach perform well or is
> there a better way to do it?
>

As was mentioned, you can stream points to the writer with LAS depending on
what other processing you might want to do.  When you call execute(), just
pass a FixedPointTable instead of a PointTable.  Unless you are
memory-limited, it's not likely to amount to a huge performance
improvement, though.

You really need to be specific about your needs to allow us to provide you
good information.  It's best to write a little code and not make to make
too many assumptions about problems before you start.

Best,

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