[GRASSLIST:4232] Re: Importing Vectors

[Gordon Keith]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:09, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe a workaround: Try to use "ogr2ogr" (part of GDAL):
> http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/
>
> It allows for conversion of MapInfo to SHAPE:
> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" out.shp in.mif
>
> Then
> v.in.shape out.shp ...

It gave the following:
----------
File `training.shp' is of Type Area (Polygon) with 92 entries.

Bounds:
W:      130.611056, E:      150.269383, S:      -38.254678, N:      
-31.828629.

    ERROR: Polygon controller contained error.



FATAL ERROR: There was a problem importing the map.
----------

but I found the problem with v.in.ascii, I can't spell.

> > The file has the following header:
> > ORGANIZAITON:


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Gordon Keith
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Marine Acoustics
CSIRO Marine Research
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