[gdal-dev] Exporting layers from the VMAP database

[Even Rouault]

Nikos,

I don't recall the details, but this is something I've fixed a few months ago 
and this warning has disappeared if you use OGDI from CVS. As far as I 
remember, this warning can be safely ignored.

Best regards.

Le Friday 11 January 2008 19:48:57 Frank Warmerdam, vous avez écrit :
> 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,