[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr ERROR 6

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Zoltan,

If you are in Windows, try the mif2tab utility from
http://mitab.maptools.org/
OGR's Mitab driver is based on the same library.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za>wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm converting a bunch of MID-MIF files to TAB format, and one of them
> gives:
> ERROR 6: Error during reading Record.
>
> google comes up with:  CreateField() not supported by this layer
>
> So I check the mif headers and they seem fine, and contain 240 POINT
> records with schema layout of 43 fields.
> The mid file has 10080 commas in it, so that suggests the correct number of
> fields, as there are 240 records in it.
> So that leaves most likely a field type error, which is not so quick to
> check.
>
> Can someone please pass comment on this error?
> Is it a show-stopper, or is only the faulty record skipped and the rest of
> the file translated?
>
> The MID/MIF files together are small (some 75KB), so I can attach them if
> someone is interested.
>
> Any ideas gladly welcome.
> Perhaps future releases of ogr2ogr could include the filename & record
> number in the error message?
>
> TIA,
> Zoltan
>
>
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