I have two files: the first has x,y,z information and is a (big) point cloud file, and second has only x,y information and is a (small) point shp file. The two files occupy the same area.
For each of the x,y points in the shp file, I would like to find the nearest x,y point in the point cloud file and pass the corresponding point cloud z value to the attribute table of the shp file. I would also like to avoid converting the point cloud to any other format (due to file sizes)
I am fairly new to FME and I'm not sure what is the right tool for the job. After some research, I tried the SpatialRelator but this seems to be the wrong tool (at least by itself) because it does not seem to support a "near" (within a certain distance) calculation. Maybe I'm too used to ArcGIS, but FME does not seem to have a "spatial join" type tool, or at least they are calling it something else...