Given that you are working in the GIS world I would encourage you to have the contractor deliver the LiDAR in LAS format. That will at least give you some hope of using traditional GIS
software to work with it.
For going from CAD to GIS FME (http://www.safe.com/) is king.
--
Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne
University of Vermont | Spatial Analysis Lab
Twitter: @jarlathond
Blog: http://letters-sal.blogspot.com/
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Reply-To: MARGARET Watters <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 9:36 AM
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Subject: terrestrial LiDAR to GIS layer
I am looking for some information on bringing terrestrial LiDAR into GIS.
The contractor delivered the point cloud (with free Pointools for viewing the point cloud) and CAD files including interpreted features.
I am not familiar with CAD, but am able to open the CAD data in GIS. I do not however have a legible attribute table I can open and use in my work. The contractor does not use GIS and their standard deliverable is CAD.
How can I communicate with my contractor to enable an easy transition from their deliverable to my GIS needs?
Ideally, the contractor will deliver the point cloud (for data curation) with a viewer and GIS compatible layers including attribute information (that will potentially include polygon, line, point, and DEM/TIN surfaces (for example, bare earth).
Thank you in advance to folks for giving this some thought.
Meg
Meg Watters Wilkes, PhD
Visual Environment Solutions, LLC
President
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