[pdal] First steps using PDAL in osgeo4W

Tue Apr 2 07:24:27 PDT 2019

Thanks Bradley,
I followed the instruction on line and did this command:
conda create --yes --name myenv --channel conda-forge pdal

and also the
conda update pdal
which gives to me an error...

Now that I was searching the output of the conda install I found that
perhaps it is necessary to activate my environment? Is this what you mean
in your email?

This is the command:
conda activate myenv

and then I can use pdal in the Anaconda Promt with the same syntax as in
the manual?

Thanks again

Silvia

Silvia

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 3:25 PM Bradley Chambers <brad.chambers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>> Luigi Pirelli
>>>>
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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)
>>>>>>
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>>> 38030 Castello di Fiemme (TN)
>>>
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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)

tel: 0039 -3384501332
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