[pdal] Pointcloud writer not available

[Jean-Francois Prieur]

Thanks for the quick reply! Yes, I figured from the previous discussions
that a pathing issue is occuring.

We love docker and work with it, the only issue I have to research is that
we use Python scripts to call pdal via osgeo command line to insert point
clouds in our database using pgpointcloud writer.

We work in precision forestry so we have software that segments tree crowns
from lidar data. We then extract the point cloud for each individual tree
using the segmented vector tree crown shapes  Many metrics and features are
calculated and tagged to the crown (this is what the Python script that
creates the PDAL pipeline does) and then injected into the postgres
database, so they can be found in the database later.

We have not found a way (yet!) to interface via Docker the same way eg.
Call a pdal command line via docker from a Python script.

Everything would be much easier on Linux but I do not make that call!

Thanks for your help.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:47 AM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 3, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Francois Prieur <jfprieur at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Just got a new machine for work, I downloaded the latest 64-bit osgeo4w
> installer and installed my usual suite of stuff (PDAL, PCL, QGIS, etc) and
> all dependencies. For some reason, when I type pdal --drivers in the
> osgeo4w command line (using admin privileges), writers.pointcloud is
> missing. Other writers missing are nitf, p2g, pcd, pclvisualiser, sqlite.
> This was working for us previously, both machines have windows 7 and
> similar configurations.
> >
> > Am I missing something obvious? pdal --version gives 1.1.0 (git-version:
> 64ca76) on both machines.
> >
> > I tried searching and found things related to this problem (namely
> related to paths) but this used to work flawlessly (older machine was
> installed in early 2016) and now doesn`t which is puzzling.
>
> The most likely issue is PDAL_DRIVER_PATH isn't set, or it isn't pointing
> at C:\osgeo4w64\bin
>
> Note that we aren't really keeping the Windows binaries up-to-date anymore
> because of the effort required to do so. The best way to use PDAL on
> Windows with the most up-to-date software (without building it yourself) is
> to use the Docker builds. This especially true now that Docker on Windows
> is rapidly improving.
>
> See the Quickstart http://www.pdal.io/quickstart.html and Workshop
> Installation documents http://www.pdal.io/workshop/docker.html for
> background on how to get going with it.
>
> Howard
>
>
>
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