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

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Howard (and hello to Mateusz too)

Thanks for your replies. I'm new to converting LIDAR data (I'm rather used
to vector and raster conversion) but I thought I'm not the first one to
process FARO Focus3d data.

So my hope relies on a PTX->LAS conversion using Martin's pointzip before
importing LAS->PostgreSQL/PostGIS/pointcloud).

Or do you suggest to go back to the FARO device/software (which I don't
have right now) and export to another format, which can be read then
directly into PostgreSQL by PDAL (or another tool)?

Yours, Stefan
(Maintainer of http://geoconverter.hsr.ch)


2013/10/10 Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co>

>
> 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 pointzip [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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