[pdal] First steps using PDAL in osgeo4W

Tue Apr 2 07:30:34 PDT 2019

Yes, exactly - activate first, before trying any PDAL commands. Let us know
if this works for you.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:24 AM Silvia Franceschi <
silvia.franceschi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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)
>>>
>>> tel: 0039 -3384501332
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>>
>>
>
> --
> ing. Silvia Franceschi
> Via Latemar, 22
> 38030 Castello di Fiemme (TN)
>
> tel: 0039 -3384501332
>
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