[pdal] First steps using PDAL in osgeo4W

Tue Apr 2 07:45:00 PDT 2019

Thanks,
so after the release I can just try to do un update to have also the
density?

Thank you very much, very quick and helpful! :-D

Silvia

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:42 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> Density not being available is a bug in 1.8.0 that will be fixed in 1.9
> when it is released at the end of the week.
>
> https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/issues/2283
>
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Silvia Franceschi <silvia.franceschi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> ok, it works now, PCL is present but not the density...
> The following commands are available:
>   - delta
>   - diff
>   - fauxplugin
>   - ground
>   - hausdorff
>   - info
>   - merge
>   - pcl
>   - pipeline
>   - random
>   - smooth
>   - sort
>   - split
>   - tile
>   - tindex
>   - translate
>
> pdal --version
> pdal 1.8.0 (git-version: Release)
>
> Is this correct? So I am now able to go on trying to add some filers to my
> data for a good DTM... any suggestions?
>
> Silvia
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:30 PM Bradley Chambers <brad.chambers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ing. Silvia Franceschi
>>> Via Latemar, 22
>>> 38030 Castello di Fiemme (TN)
>>>
>>> tel: 0039 -3384501332
>>>
>>
>
> --
> 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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