[Qgis-user] LAStools on Mac Catalina --- LAS -> LAZ

[Maria Shinoto]

Hi, 

this is an answer to myself for anybody interested. 

Three possible solutions I thought of: 

(1) QGIS -- LAStools seem to not work any more on Macs above version 3.14.

(2) wine -- this would have been an elegant solution in the mac Terminal: 'wine lastoolscommand filename' -- But unfortunately, wine does not work with Mac OS 10.15 and above any more. 

(3) Virtual Machine or Parallels Desktop with Command Line Interface -- horrible since I absolutely do not know Windows, but the CLI was fine, so I opened the CLI at the folder with the .las files and the LAStools.exe file I needed (laszip.exe in particular; all in the same folder); and that worked really well. I was afraid of the reaction of the Virtual Machine on the large files, but no problem. 

So (3) was the way to go. I only hope that wine will return to the Mac...

Best and thank Nicolas for your support, 
Maria


> Am 26.08.2021 um 19:23 schrieb Maria Shinoto <maria.shinoto at zaw.uni-heidelberg.de>:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I have to shrink 9 larger LiDAR data sets with LAStools to LAZ. 
> 
> Now I am working on a Mac (Intel; Catalina) and do not know how I should get LAStools, the zip-command in particular, running.
> 
> With web search I only find entries that are 7 or so years old, and I am not sure, whether these tips still works. 
> 
> I use the Terminal on Mac, have Parallels with Windows 10 installed and could try it that way as well. Or is there a solution with QGIS? (I am preparing an upgrade from 3.12 to 3.20)
> 
> Thanks a lot, 
> Maria
> 
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