[pdal] PDAL Extraction / Un-compression

[David Lewis]

It does help! Thank you, that's a smart work around I wouldn't have seen.
Thanks for your help!

David

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 12:33 PM Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com wrote:

> SLPK files are really gzip files inside an uncompressed zip archive.  The
> current code extracts the gzip file from the zip archive by writing it to
> a temporary location.  You should be able to use the TMP or TEMP
> environment variable to set the path as you choose.
>
> In the future it may be possible to eliminate the temporary file creation,
> but the current behavior of the code is as described above.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:21 PM David Lewis <dlewi146 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to read the file so that I can save out a smaller subset of
>> the points using a Crop filter. The problem is that the file is much too
>> large for PDAL to extract to my temporary folder when it tries to initially
>> read in the file.
>>
>> I'm hoping there is some way to direct PDAL to extract the file in a
>> different location instead of the temporary files folder.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 11:50 AM Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What do mean by "extract"?  Are you trying to fetch a subset of points
>>> from an SLPK source and write that subset to another SLPK source?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 11:39 AM David Lewis <dlewi146 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am attempting to use PDAL to perform some processing and conversion
>>>> on  a large SLPK file. Extracting the file into the temporary directory of
>>>> the local machine is not viable and I was wondering if there was any way to
>>>> direct the file extraction to a different location, such as a network
>>>> drive. I have read through the documentation, but I don't seem to have
>>>> located anything like this option. Is there some viable way of achieving
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your time,
>>>> David Lewis
>>>> Undergraduate Imaging Science
>>>> Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
>>>> Rochester Institute of Technology
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
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