[pdal] First steps using PDAL in osgeo4W

Tue Apr 2 06:25:47 PDT 2019

Let us know the exact commands you used to install via Conda. It should
have installed PDAL v1.8. I'm wondering if you installed to a conda
environment, but have not activated it yet, hence it's picking up your
previous OSGeo4W attempt.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:22 AM Silvia Franceschi <
silvia.franceschi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks again,
> I just installed Anaconda3 on my PC and it seems to work, I installed pdal
> in it and this is the version:
> pdal --version
> pdal 1.7.2 (git-version: Release)
>
> I just checked and realized that nor density or PCL are included in this
> installation too... is there a way to use the PCL filtering?
>
> In addition, if I try pdal --drivers I get an exception: Impossible to
> find the initial point (not sure if this is the correct sentence because I
> translated this from Italian message...).
>
> pdal --help also gives the same exception but it prints something in the
> console, in particular:
> The following commands are available:
>   - delta
>   - diff
>   - ground
>   - hausdorff
>   - info
>   - merge
>   - pipeline
>   - random
>   - sort
>   - split
>   - tindex
>   - translate
>
> Did I missed something during installation or this is the standard
> installation for running pdal with Conda in Windows?
>
> Thanks and sorry again for the questions...
>
> Silvia
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 2:56 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
>
>> Starting in the 1.9 release (which should go final this week), the PDAL
>> team will not be putting forward releases to OSGeo4W. We will only be
>> making Win64 releases to Conda Forge moving forward. This is due to the
>> Conda Forge having more institutional support, an easier on-boarding, and a
>> flexible installation model. As a developer, OSGeo4W is also a target that
>> moves around quite a bit, but Conda does on that account as well.
>>
>> If you're just starting, start with Conda :)
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> On Apr 2, 2019, at 7:32 AM, Silvia Franceschi <
>> silvia.franceschi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank very much to all for answering...
>> I am just scared about installing Conda... I just had a look at the links
>> from the quickstart and they are not yet available.
>>
>> I will try now to install and run Conda... finger crossed!!
>>
>> Silvia
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 12:28 PM Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> righ PCL is not part of osgeo as in:
>>> https://pdal.io/download.html#id3
>>>
>>> btw pdal density is not present in linux 1.6 and 1.8 :(...
>>>
>>> silvia, are you hable to use pdal in a conda environment in Win?
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
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>>>
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>>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 12:25, Bradley Chambers <brad.chambers at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I could be wrong, but I don't think that PCL was ever part of the
>>>> osgeo4w install, which means you'd have to install it separately and
>>>> rebuild PDAL from scratch to access the PCL capabilities.
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried the conda steps found in our quickstart? It's a more
>>>> complete, and frankly easier to use way of getting up and running on
>>>> Windows.
>>>>
>>>> https://pdal.io/quickstart.html
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019, 6:02 AM Silvia Franceschi <
>>>> silvia.franceschi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> sorry for bothering you...
>>>>> I am trying to start to test some of the PDAL tools with my LiDAR data
>>>>> on a windows10 machine using the package contained in OSGEO4W.
>>>>> Unfortunately, I have some problems with the first commands... for
>>>>> example:
>>>>> 1. pdal density seems to not be present on this installation because
>>>>> the message in the console is (PDAL Error) Command 'density' not recognized
>>>>> even if I just try to do "pdal density --help"
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. PCL filters also are not installed and I can not understand how to
>>>>> install this support or if it should be already installed...
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry again for these basic questions, but I am really at the
>>>>> beginning and I tried to search in the archive of the mailing list without
>>>>> understanding where are my problems.. :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Silvia
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ing. Silvia Franceschi
>>>>> Via Latemar, 22
>>>>> 38030 Castello di Fiemme (TN)
>>>>>
>>>>> tel: 0039 -3384501332
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>>
>> --
>> ing. Silvia Franceschi
>> Via Latemar, 22
>> 38030 Castello di Fiemme (TN)
>>
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>>
>
> --
> ing. Silvia Franceschi
> Via Latemar, 22
> 38030 Castello di Fiemme (TN)
>
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