[pdal] Reprojection help

Rebecca Clarke rebecca at clarke.net.nz
Wed Oct 9 02:20:03 PDT 2019


The bug fix they are referring to (which was actually May 2019 not Sept
2019, my bad)  has something to do with grids not being picked up, which
feels like what's happening here.
Ticket raised https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/issues/2779


On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 7:44 PM Rebecca Clarke <rebecca at clarke.net.nz> wrote:

> Hi Howard,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply I installed these packages and it didn't fix
> the problem.
> I'm specifying the grid shift file with the +geoidgrids.
> I noticed on the PROJ site there was a bug fix in Sept 2019 that mentions
> geoidgrids, maybe that could be what's causing the issue here, but I need
> to investigate that further to understand it.
>
> Thanks
> Rebecca
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 5:07 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
>
>> I suspect you also need to install the proj-datumgrid package for conda
>>
>> > conda install -c conda-forge proj-datumgrid-oceania
>> proj-datumgrid-world
>>
>> This should get you the grid shift files that OSGeo4W packages for you.
>> Please file a ticket in the PDAL repository on this topic. We need to
>> update our documentation to note this item if users expect to do any
>> geodetic shift operations.
>>
>> Howard
>> <https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 9:17 PM Rebecca Clarke <rebecca at clarke.net.nz>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi fellow PDAL'ers
>>>
>>> So after my post last week about OSGeo4W I reverted to Conda and I'm no
>>> longer getting the results I was getting in OSGeo4W. I would love some help
>>> troubleshooting as I feel like I'm overlooking something but not sure what.
>>>
>>> I am doing a reprojection on a las file. When I run this command in the
>>> pdal version i have in OSGeo4W a file is created and the Z values have been
>>> correctly reprojected. When I run the exact same command in the conda
>>> environment, I get a file with data in it, but there has been no
>>> change/shift to the Z value.
>>>
>>> OSGeo4W pdal version is 1.8.0
>>> Conda pdal version is 2.0.1
>>>
>>> This is the command:
>>>
>>> pdal pipeline "C:/Rebecca/las/pipeline.json"
>>> --readers.las.filename="C:/Rebecca/las/BD38_5k_0201.las"
>>> --writers.las.filename="C:/Rebecca/las/BD38_5k_0201_NZVD2016.las"
>>> --filters.reprojection.out_srs="+init=EPSG:2193
>>> +geoidgrids=C:/Rebecca/las/moturiki-1953-to-nzvd2016-conversion.gtx"
>>>
>>> This is the contents of pipeline.json:
>>>
>>> {
>>>     "pipeline" :
>>>     [
>>>         {
>>>             "type":"readers.las",
>>>             "filename":"#"
>>>         },
>>>         {
>>>             "type":"filters.reprojection",
>>>             "in_srs":"EPSG:2193",
>>>             "out_srs":"EPSG:2193"
>>>         },
>>>         {
>>>             "type":"writers.las",
>>>             "filename":"#",
>>>             "a_srs":"EPSG:2193",
>>>             "forward":"all"
>>>         }
>>>     ]
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> These are the packages which I installed in the conda environment after
>>> creation: pdal, python-pdal, gdal
>>>
>>> Would love any help.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Rebecca
>>>
>>>
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