[gdal-dev] Exporting layers from the VMAP database

[Markus Neteler]

On Jan 11, 2008 2:51 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> Hi GDAL list!
>
> Finally, I accessed (with ogrinfo) and exported successfully into
> shapefile (with ogr2ogr) something from the VMAP database.
>
> Although I can see the polbnda polygons for instance, I still don't
> understand this error message:
>
> $ ogr2ogr polbnda.shp gltp:/vrf/home/nik/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia
> 'polbnda at bnd(*)_area'
> GET_TABLE_ELEMENT: Invalid field number -1
>
> What does this mean?

Are you sure that the path is right?
See also
http://intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2005-April/002276.html
(note: the @ symbol is scrambled there)

Markus