[pdal] Y_scale issue for LAS file

[Andrew Bell]

PDAL writes LAS with scale of .01 by default (see
https://pdal.io/stages/writers.las.html).  I assume that using more
precision than your input would cause an overflow that's detected by the
system.  You should set the output scale that you desire.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 2:01 AM Miguel Guerrero <
g.miguel.guerrero.m at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having troubles with a LAS file dataset. When I run the SORT filter
> in pipeline mode, I get the following message:
>
>
>
> PDAL: writers.las: Unable to convert scaled value (2663397360) to int32
> for dimension 'Y' when writing LAS/LAZ file
> \\sfcad8\E\16028101_PowerEngineers_TWE\NVE\00_SORTED\pt000002.las.
>
>
>
> And the resulting LAS file are empty (1 KB size)
>
>
>
> The X, Y, Z scales for the LAS dataset is “0.10000000000000000555”.
>
>
>
> I have run exactly the same filter on other datasets and it worked just
> fine. However, the other datasets where in a different projection.
>
>
>
> Any idea why PDAL is throwing this message and writing no points to the
> resulting LAS file?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
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