PDAL/PDAL — Issue #66: las written from oracle - units not set - QT Modeler
Author: msmitherdc
Created: 2012-01-18 21:08:23+00:00
State: open

When las data written from Oracle (via download by ID) in Geodetic format, the units are not being read properly.

If I remember, this was a GDAL/GeoTiff missing units issue

```
[gridusr@o3d-proc ~]$ lasinfo tmpsMTR2q.las
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Header Summary
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Version: 1.2
Source ID: 0
Reserved: 0
Project ID/GUID: '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
System ID: 'PDAL'
Generating Software: 'PDAL 0.1.0'
File Creation Day/Year: 0/0
Header Byte Size 227
Data Offset: 917
Header Padding: 0
Number Var. Length Records: 4
Point Data Format: 3
Number of Point Records: 9732012
Compressed: False
Number of Points by Return: 6877682 2186449 605236 62645 0
Scale Factor X Y Z: 0.0000001 0.0000001 0.0001
Offset X Y Z: 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000
Min X Y Z: -89.6796148 30.3816295 -0.4037
Max X Y Z: -89.6642871 30.3950044 35.3797
Spatial Reference:
GEOGCS["WGS 84",
DATUM["WGS_1984",
SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]

Geotiff_Information:
Version: 1
Key_Revision: 1.0
Tagged_Information:
End_Of_Tags.
Keyed_Information:
GTModelTypeGeoKey (Short,1): ModelTypeGeographic
GTRasterTypeGeoKey (Short,1): RasterPixelIsArea
GeographicTypeGeoKey (Short,1): GCS_WGS_84
GeogCitationGeoKey (Ascii,7): "WGS 84"
GeogAngularUnitSizeGeoKey (Double,1): 0.0174532925199433
GeogSemiMajorAxisGeoKey (Double,1): 6378137
GeogInvFlatteningGeoKey (Double,1): 298.257223563
End_Of_Keys.
End_Of_Geotiff.
```