[GRASS5] GRASS + Oracle

[Radim Blazek]

You should use v.in.ogr, g.copy does not do cleaning of areas.
It is also possible to use any other module doing nothing e.g.
v.category layer=1.

Radim

On 10/11/05, Stephan Holl <holl at gdf-hannover.de> wrote:
> Hello Radim,
>
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:28:32 +0200 Radim Blazek
> <radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is feature, once g.copy was making copy reading and
> > writing lines, now it just copy files/tables.
>
> Thanks for commenting on this. Since I would like to work with several
> read-only v.external ogr-files/dbs which occasionally need some
> digitizing inside the geometry. Therefor I thought just copying the
> dataset into the native GRASS-FOrmat and edit then with
> QGIS-GRASS-Digitize-tool.
>
> I would like to see a switch inside g.copy which forces copying writing
> lines in the native format. Would that be a possibility to extent the
> current behavoiur with the former behaviour?
>
> This would be usefull for copying ogr-datasets without using v.in.ogr
> inside GRASS.
>
> Thanks for commenting on this.
>
> Best
>         Stephan
>
>
> > On 10/10/05, Stephan Holl <holl at gdf-hannover.de> wrote:
> > > Dear Developers,
> > >
> > > I have successfully used GRASS and oracle-spatial with v.external.
> > > Usually I thought that copying a layer included by v.extrenal with
> > > g.copy copies the whole layer as a grass-vector-layer, which can be
> > > editied by v.digit.
> > >
> > > This is not the case when trying to copy a OCI-layer. The resultant
> > > layer cannot be edited with v.digit:
> > > v.digit roads_oci_copy
> > > WARNING: OGR format cannot be updated.
> > > ERROR: Cannot open old vector roads_oci_copy at PERMANENT on level 2
> > >
> > > This is the same error when trying v.digit on the v.external-layer.
> > >
> > > Is this a bug or a feature?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >         Stephan
>
>
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