[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr ERROR 6

[Zoltan Szecsei]

Hi Chaitanya,
I'm shelling out from a Genamap script to Linux BASH shell, to run 
ogr2ogr, so nope, not in Windows.

Regards,
Zoltan

On 2011/07/16 12:36, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031]
Geograph (Pty) Ltd.
P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa.

65 Main Road, Muizenberg 7945
Western Cape, South Africa.

34° 6'16.35"S 18°28'5.62"E

Tel: +27-21-7884897  Mobile: +27-83-6004028
Fax: +27-86-6115323     www.geograph.co.za
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