[pgpointcloud] stuck getting data into pgpointcloud

Rémi Cura remi.cura at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 06:00:44 PDT 2016


Are you sure you use pc_patch(your set of points) before inserting anything?
It does not look to be the cas ein your sql example.

Even a 1 point patch as to be transformed into a patch!

Cheers,
Rémi-C

2016-07-22 8:14 GMT+02:00 Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au>:

>
> OK - dropping the PCID option from my pipeline.xml did the trick, and I
> have points in a table of patches!
>
> I’d like to know why the schema didn’t work out - but I can tinker and
> figure that out later.
>
> Thanks everyone
>
> Adam
>
> > On 22 Jul 2016, at 11:32 AM, Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The PDAL pgpointcloud writer will create an appropriate schema
> automatically.
> >
> > On Jul 21, 2016 8:24 PM, "Adam Steer" <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> > Hi Remi, all
> >
> > Moving on - I realised that my pipeline was not limiting the output of
> PDAL properly, so I made a new schema to fit all 16 dimensions. It works
> (with one mismatched data type), for example:
> >
> > pcbm_pc=> insert into act_points (pt) select pc_makepoint(3,
> array[692236.790,6094672.340,615.530,93.000,1.000,2.000,1.000,0.000,5.000,-12.000,0.000,601.000,436302.342,0.000,0.000,0.000])
> as values;
> > WARNING:  Value -12 truncated to 0 to fit in uint16_t
> >
> > …where the array of values is a direct copy and paste from pdal
> translate filename.las stdout | head. And I get the results back as
> expected:
> >
> > pcbm_pc=> SELECT PC_AsText(pt) FROM act_points LIMIT 2;
> >                                    pc_astext
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> {"pcid":3,"pt":[692237,6.09466e+06,604.97,89,3,3,1,0,3,0,0,583,364567,0,0,0]}
> >
> {"pcid":3,"pt":[692237,6.09467e+06,615.53,93,1,2,1,0,5,0,0,601,436302,0,0,0]}
> > (2 rows)
> >
> > ….but when I try to make a patch, I’m missing something:
> >
> > pcbm_pc=> select * from act_points limit 1;
> >  id |                                                             pt
> >
> ----+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >   1 |
> 010300000048E17A9419202541AE47E10AD23F5741F6285C8FC2E78240590003000300010000000300000000004702736891ED5B401641000000000000
> > (1 row)
> >
> > pcbm_pc=> insert into act_patches (pa) values
> ('010300000048E17A9419202541AE47E10AD23F5741F6285C8FC2E78240590003000300010000000300000000004702736891ED5B401641000000000000');
> > ERROR:  pc_patch_from_wkb: unknown compression '-1803886264' requested
> > LINE 1: insert into act_patches (pa) values ('010300000048E17A941920…
> >
> > …which is sort of similar to the message I get back from my PDAL
> pipeline (?? well, unknown compression vs wkb and data size mismatch)
> >
> > # pdal pipeline postgis_pc_pipeline.xml
> > PDAL: ERROR:  pc_patch_uncompressed_from_wkb: wkb size and expected data
> size do not match
> > LINE 1: INSERT INTO "act_patches" ("pa") VALUES ('010300000000000000...
> >
> > My schema says:
> >
> >  <pc:metadata>
> >     <Metadata name="compression">none</Metadata>
> >   </pc:metadata>
> >
> > So - I have an issue creating patches. Again, thanks in advance for any
> insight!
> >
> > Regards
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 21 Jul 2016, at 9:06 AM, Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks Rémi,
> > >
> > > I will do some tests and report back. I had not even considered this
> approach!
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
> > >> On 20 Jul 2016, at 10:04 PM, Rémi Cura <remi.cura at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hey,
> > >> As you seem to discover this pgpointcloud world,
> > >> maybe you could do this step by step.
> > >> First create your point xml schema and test it within the database
> > >> (meaning creating a random point and patch using it).
> > >>
> > >> Then you can use lastool to output a few actual points in text,
> > >> and manually create pgpoints from these values (casting point to text
> back to be sure your precision/offset and so is OK).
> > >>
> > >> When you are sure everything works, then you can use pdal.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Rémi-C
> > >>
> > >> 2016-07-20 2:52 GMT+02:00 Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au>:
> > >> Hi all
> > >>
> > >> I am attempting to ingest some points into postGIS-pointcloud, and
> basically failing at the start:
> > >>
> > >> - I want to ingest time,x,y,z,intensity,return number and
> classification
> > >> - I’ve used pdal info —schema to get the numeric types, sizes and
> field names of my .LAS file (v1.4)
> > >> - I’ve (maybe) built a format schema based on those (see below)
> > >> - …and used a PDAL pipeline to try to ingest them.
> > >>
> > >> but I’ve managed to map something badly - PDAL returns:
> > >>
> > >> #> pdal pipeline postgis_pc_pipeline.xml
> > >> PDAL: ERROR:  pc_patch_uncompressed_from_wkb: wkb size and expected
> data size do not match
> > >> LINE 1: INSERT INTO "blocks" ("pa") VALUES
> ('01020000000000000087130...
> > >>
> > >> While I’ve worked with points a lot, I’ve not used any clever things
> like postGIS pointcloud to manage them (because PhD, time, and triage
> between working with what exists and learning new things) - and now I’m
> learning on the fly (with a need to learn fast!)
> > >>
> > >> PDAL tells me I’m clearly missing something about the relationship
> between the size of things in my schema, and the size of things PDAL is
> getting from my .LAS file.
> > >>
> > >> Also I’m trying to be lazy - I should probably work out the scales
> and offsets correctly, and store XYZ as long integers. I wanted to try
> floating point storage (as real, which if I read correctly should be big
> enough).
> > >>
> > >> Any help will be highly appreciated!
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >>
> > >> Adam
> > >>
> > >> ----
> > >> Here is my pipeline:
> > >>
> > >> # cat postgis_pc_pipeline.xml
> > >>
> > >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > >> <Pipeline version="1.0">
> > >>    <Writer type="writers.pgpointcloud">
> > >>        <Option name="connection">host='localhost' dbname=‘….'
> user=‘….' password=‘….'</Option>
> > >>        <Option name="table">blocks</Option>
> > >>        <Option name="srid">28355</Option>
> > >>        <Option name="pcid">2</Option>
> > >>        <Filter type="filters.chipper">
> > >>            <Option name="capacity">5000</Option>
> > >>            <Reader type="readers.las">
> > >>                <Option
> name="filename">./subsets/ACT2015-C3-ELL_6926094_55_0002_0002_7_12.las</Option>
> > >>                <Option name="spatialreference">EPSG:28355</Option>
> > >>            </Reader>
> > >>        </Filter>
> > >>    </Writer>
> > >> </Pipeline>
> > >>
> > >> (notes here - should I use a filter to get *just* the fields I want -
> or does PDAL handle extracting only what exists in the schema?)
> > >>
> > >> …and my schema SQL:
> > >>
> > >> INSERT INTO pointcloud_formats (pcid, srid, schema) VALUES (2, 28335,
> > >> '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > >> <pc:PointCloudSchema xmlns:pc="http://pointcloud.org/schemas/PC/1.1"
> > >>    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> > >>    <pc:dimension>
> > >>    <pc:position>1</pc:position>
> > >>    <pc:size>8</pc:size>
> > >>    <pc:description>Time as seconds of GPS week, as real
> > >>    </pc:description>
> > >>    <pc:name>T</pc:name>
> > >>    <pc:interpretation>real</pc:interpretation>
> > >>    <pc:scale>1</pc:scale>
> > >>  </pc:dimension>
> > >>  <pc:dimension>
> > >>    <pc:position>2</pc:position>
> > >>    <pc:size>8</pc:size>
> > >>    <pc:description>X coordinate as real.</pc:description>
> > >>    <pc:name>X</pc:name>
> > >>    <pc:interpretation>real</pc:interpretation>
> > >>    <pc:scale>1</pc:scale>
> > >>  </pc:dimension>
> > >>  <pc:dimension>
> > >>    <pc:position>3</pc:position>
> > >>    <pc:size>8</pc:size>
> > >>    <pc:description>Y coordinate as real</pc:description>
> > >>    <pc:name>Y</pc:name>
> > >>    <pc:interpretation>real</pc:interpretation>
> > >>    <pc:scale>1</pc:scale>
> > >>  </pc:dimension>
> > >>  <pc:dimension>
> > >>    <pc:position>4</pc:position>
> > >>    <pc:size>8</pc:size>
> > >>    <pc:description>Z coordinate is ellipsoidal height as real
> > >>    </pc:description>
> > >>    <pc:name>Z</pc:name>
> > >>    <pc:interpretation>real</pc:interpretation>
> > >>    <pc:scale>1</pc:scale>
> > >>  </pc:dimension>
> > >>  <pc:dimension>
> > >>    <pc:position>5</pc:position>
> > >>    <pc:size>6</pc:size>
> > >>    <pc:description>The intensity value is the integer representation
> > >>                    of the pulse return magnitude. This value is
> optional
> > >>                    and system specific. However, it should always be
> > >>                    included if available.</pc:description>
> > >>    <pc:name>Intensity</pc:name>
> > >>    <pc:interpretation>uint16_t</pc:interpretation>
> > >>    <pc:scale>1</pc:scale>
> > >>  </pc:dimension>
> > >>  <pc:dimension>
> > >>    <pc:position>6</pc:position>
> > >>    <pc:size>1</pc:size>
> > >>    <pc:description>Return number</pc:description>
> > >>    <pc:name>ReturnNumber</pc:name>
> > >>    <pc:interpretation>uint16_t</pc:interpretation>
> > >>    <pc:scale>1</pc:scale>
> > >>  </pc:dimension>
> > >>  <pc:dimension>
> > >>    <pc:position>7</pc:position>
> > >>    <pc:size>1</pc:size>
> > >>    <pc:description>Classification if supplied (ASPRS LAS
> guidelines)</pc:description>
> > >>    <pc:name>Class</pc:name>
> > >>    <pc:interpretation>uint16_t</pc:interpretation>
> > >>    <pc:scale>1</pc:scale>
> > >>  </pc:dimension>
> > >>  <pc:metadata>
> > >>    <Metadata name="compression">dimensional</Metadata>
> > >>  </pc:metadata>
> > >> </pc:PointCloudSchema>');
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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