[GRASSLIST:1411] Re: tiger data and sdts dlg's

[Radim Blazek]

dbf, shp, shx? It will be shapefile.
Try v.in.shape.

Radim 

Richard Christofferson wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to import both tiger data and dlg sdts format files
> 
> for the tiger data, I've been using v.in.tig.basic.
> Is this the correct command? It looks like the files
> needed for t1 and t2 dont correspond to what I have.
> The files I have are
> str49035.dbf   str49035.shp   str49035.shx
> I see nothing telling me it's a type one or two file.
> 
> this is the console output
> 
> GRASS 5.0beta11 > v.in.tig.basic t1=str49035.dbf t2=str49035.shp out=street zone=13
> Working . . .
> WARNING: Extra chars found in Tiger Type 2 File--Check it.
> WARNING: Extra chars found in Tiger Type 2 File--Check it.
> WARNING: Extra chars found in Tiger Type 2 File--Check it.
> 
> it just kind of repeats this and makes a file street of 0 size because
> I'd finally got bored and killed the process.
> 
> As for the dlg. I used v.in.sdts
> The output requests a data dictionary which I located
> and untarred in the same directory as the source sdts files but still
> got the error.
> I'm not able to find any documents telling me how I should deal with
> the data dictionary.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> richc