topic Re: Creating a Spatial ETL Tool in LIDAR Resources Questions

Creating a Spatial ETL Tool

EvanStern — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:14:22 GMT

Hello,

I'm following the steps in this tutorial (1st picture), but when I right click on my new toolbox (2nd picture below) and hover over 'new tool' the 'create spatial etl tool' does not show up. Any suggestions? I have ArcMap 10.6.1, and am trying to convert an LAZ file into an LAS.

Thanks,

Evan

Re: Creating a Spatial ETL Tool

DrewDowling — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:11:33 GMT

Make sure you have a data interoperability license available and enable the data interoperability extension in ArcMap.

Re: Creating a Spatial ETL Tool

IanMurray — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:38:34 GMT

Conversely if you do not have a data interoperability license, you can can use LASzip tool free to unzip .laz files.

For a small walkthrough:

https://gisjames.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/converting-laz-to-las-files/

Link to LASZip:

https://laszip.org/

Additional help on StackExchange:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/188170/converting-lidar-files-from-laz-to-las-format