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

[Lanny Smith]

Hi Howard,

Do you happen to have the list of point cloud formats that PDAL does
support?

Thank you,

*Lanny Smith*

Phone: 918-406-5002
Fax: 866-384-4809
Web: http://www.arrival3d.com





On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

>
> 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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