Licensing options for this format begin with FME Desktop Professional Edition.
The Entwine Point Tile (EPT) Reader provides FME with access to data in the Entwine Point Tile format.
Overview
Entwine Point Tile (EPT) is a simple and flexible octree-based storage format for point cloud data. The organization of an EPT dataset contains JSON metadata portions as well as binary point data.
Reader Overview
FME considers the ept.json file to be a dataset. Each dataset contains one point cloud feature.
EPT Quick Facts
|
Format Type Identifier |
EPT |
|
Reader/Writer |
Reader |
|
Professional and above |
|
|
Dependencies |
None |
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Dataset Type |
File |
|
Feature Type |
EPT |
|
Typical File Extensions |
.json |
|
Automated Translation Support |
Yes |
|
User-Defined Attributes |
No |
|
Coordinate System Support |
Yes |
|
Generic Color Support |
No |
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Spatial Index |
Never |
|
Schema Required |
No |
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Transaction Support |
No |
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Encoding Support |
No |
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Geometry Type Attribute |
ept_type |
EPT Geometry Support
|
Geometry |
Supported? |
|---|---|
|
aggregate |
no |
|
circles |
no |
|
circular arc |
no |
|
donut polygon |
no |
|
elliptical arc |
no |
|
ellipses |
no |
|
line |
no |
|
none |
no |
|
point |
no |
|
point cloud |
yes |
|
polygon |
no |
|
raster |
no |
|
solid |
no |
|
surface |
no |
|
text |
no |
|
z values |
yes |
EPT Point Cloud Component Data Type
|
Point Cloud Component |
Data Type |
|---|---|
|
x |
Real64 |
|
y |
Real64 |
|
z |
Real64 |
|
any |
Real64, Real32, UInt64, UInt32, UInt16, UInt8, Int64, Int32, Int16, Int8 |