[gdal-dev] ogr problems with MapInfo

[Sebastian E. Ovide]

done... didn't work...

Copied on the same SMB folder with undercase names... both ogrinfo and
tab2tab failed.
Copied the same files to a local folder and both ogrinfo and tab2tab
succeeded...

same errors....


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com
> wrote:

> Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
> >
> > can verbosity be increased further ?
> >
>
> I don't think so... the only way to know more about what is happening
> would be to run this in gdb.
>
>
> > and with TAB2TAB the only messages that I get are:
> >
> > gis at mapserver:/tmp$ /home/gis/src/mitab-1.7.0/mitab/tab2tab
> > /home/gis/data/tmp/CA_AbandonedMine.TAB test.TAB
> > ERROR 3: stat() failed for /home/gis/data/tmp/CA_AbandonedMine.id
> >
> > ERROR 3: Open() failed for /home/gis/data/tmp/CA_AbandonedMine.map
> > ERROR 3: /home/gis/data/tmp/CA_AbandonedMine.TAB could not be opened as
> > a MapInfo dataset.
> > Failed to open /home/gis/data/tmp/CA_AbandonedMine.TAB
> >
>
> This looks like an uppercase vs lowercase file extension problem. There
> is some logic in MITAB to try to guess and then adjust filename
> extensions (e.g. .MAP vs .map) on non-Windows systems that uses stat()
> and for some reason it seems to fail with the SMB share.
>
> Can you please try renaming all files for a given table to lowercase
> extensions (.tab, .map, .dat, .ind, .id) and then see if that changes
> anything with the tab2tab program on the SMB share?
>
> If that solves the issue then we'll need to reproduce this here and run
> this in gdb to figure the exact source of the problem and fix it.
>
> Daniel
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