[gdal-dev] Exporting layers from the VMAP database

[Frank Warmerdam]

Nikos Alexandris 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?

Nikos,

I'm not sure what it means.  Presumably it is being reported by the OGDI
VRF driver due to some sort of apparent inconsistency in the data file.
Hopefully it is not significant though there is a risk that some features
are incomplete in some fashion.

Best regards,
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