[pgpointcloud] Howto read/convert PTS or PTX formats?

[Howard Butler]

On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I got data from a FARO Focus3d LIDAR scanner I think in PTS or PTX format.
> Does anybody have experiences in reading these formats - or at least converting them to LAS? 
> I found poinzip [1] but I'd like to use PDAL since my target is PostgreSQL (pointcloud extension) and PDAL supports writing to this database.
> 
> Yours, Stefan
> 
> [1] http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/pointzip/

PDAL doesn't support PTS or PTX at this time. The FARO folks would most likely need to provide either a binary API so that a PDAL driver could be written for their format(s), or alternatively, some sort of document(s) describing the binary layout of the formats so that a driver could be written.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Howard


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