[SoC] [GRASS-dev] Week 01 Report - Integration Of PDAL into GRASS GIS

[Vaclav Petras]

This is actually a question for PDAL ML, not grass-dev, and Paul was
discussing it there, hence Adam's email.

But anyway, I told Paul not to worry about it for now, because the issue
(linking LAZ libraries to PDAL) is more or less orthogonal to Paul's
project (using PDAL in GRASS).

Thanks all for all the support,
Vaclav

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> in grass-dev ML you can likely find guidance, putting it in cc. Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Paul Schrum <ptschrum at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Adam.
>>
>> I was able to build PDAL from source following instructions at Unix
>> Compilation <https://www.pdal.io/development/compilation/unix.html>.  I
>> then ran all of the unit tests based on Testing
>> <https://www.pdal.io/development/testing.html#pdal-test>.
>>
>> Later I realized that I am not able to read .laz files.  Doing so will be
>> essential to my project's success.  The way I know it can't read laz is,
>> from the command line, I enter:
>>
>> pdal info autzen.laz
>>
>> and it responds:
>>
>> PDAL: readers.las: Can't read compressed file without LASzip or LAZperf
>> decompression library.
>>
>> Do I need to download LASzip source and build that, then rebuild pdal?
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Paul
>>>
>>> What issues are you having with PDAL and LAZ compression? I don’t know
>>> if I can help for your use case, but I do have a working
>>> PDAL/laszip/laz-perf system natively installed on Linux without docker.
>>>
>>> Also I’m not officially a mentor of your or any project, but happy to
>>> help - and happy to discuss with your mentor(s) also if need be.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Adam Steer
>>> Earth systems data service specialist
>>> National Computational Infrastructure
>>> Leonard Huxley Building, Mills Road
>>> The Australian National University
>>> Acton ACT 2600 Australia
>>>
>>> adam.steer at anu.edu.au
>>> +61 2 6125 1413
>>> http://nci.org.au
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On 5 Jun 2017, at 11:13 am, Paul Schrum <ptschrum at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Submitted by Paul Schrum
>>> > Also available at Integration Of PDAL into GRASS GIS
>>> >
>>> >       • What did you get done this week?
>>> >       • Built GRASS73 from source from my local repo directoy.
>>> >       • Stepped into a module (v.in.ascii) using the debugger to watch
>>> it work at the source code level. This was only proving the concept of
>>> stepping into the code – just getting it to work.
>>> >       • Talked with my mentor about the nature of the existing
>>> v.in.pdal module and what are some of the things which must be changed,
>>> fixed, or improved.
>>> >       • What do you plan on doing next week?
>>> >       • Continue stepping through v.in.ascii to see how it works at
>>> the source level in order to understand how to write points to a vectormap.
>>> >       • Get GRASS 73 to link to current version of PDAL.
>>> >       • Fix broken references to PDAL data structures in the GRASS
>>> source
>>> >       • Refactor existing v.in.pdal so that operations which r.in.pdal
>>> and r3.in.pdal will need are in a separate module and available as
>>> functions to be called from all three of them.
>>> >       • Learn the process of calling PDAL and how to get it to do the
>>> basic operation of reading a lidar file and handing over the data to the
>>> caller.
>>> >       • Set up a basic set of test data for PDAL, open it from pdal
>>> without GRASS, then open it using pdal through GRASS with only the most
>>> basic options in operation.
>>> >       • Get PDAL to be able to read .laz (compressed) files. For some
>>> reason it can’t do that after build-from-source.
>>> >       • Are you blocked on anything?
>>> > I had two listed on the Wiki when I originally posted it, but my
>>> mentor helped me work through those before the end of the reporting period
>>> for Week 1. So there are currently no issues blocking me.
>>> >
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