[Qgis-user] Re: [GRASS-user] Problem importing/viewing a ~160MB shapefile

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 13:42 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 19:01 -0800, Hamish wrote:
> > Nikos wrote:
[...]
> * The shapefile I am trying to "work-out" is a coastline dataset as
> well. But it never really goes through the v.in.ogr process or the
> "v.in.ogr -c" + "v.split" + "v.clean tool=break" (see previous posts on
> this thread of course). It always "hangs" at the "breaking boundaries"
> step.
[...]
> 
> * After stopping the process "Ctrl+C" v.info complains (naturally I
> guess) about:
> 
> ERROR: Unable to open vector map <cstlns_global at PERMANENT> on level 2.
> Try
>        to rebuild vector topology by v.build.
> 
> 
> * Then, v.build warns:
> WARNING: Coor files of vector map <cstlns_global at PERMANENT> is larger
> than
>          it should be (29979221 bytes excess)
> 
> and starts working.
(Leaving QGIS-mailing list out)

v.build worked!!! For the first time.

Nikos