[GRASSLIST:1213] Re: grass51 v.convert

[Sjors]

Hi Radim,

Thanks it's working now, after doing 'v.convert in=agro-eco out=agro_eco'.

Greetings Sjors


Radim Blazek wrote:

>On Friday 12 September 2003 10:40, Sjors wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Now that I've got grass5.1 up and running I run into following problem.
>>I tried to convert a map from native grass50 to native grass51 format.
>>The following error keeps occuring whatever I do:
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>> v.convert in=agro-eco out=agro-eco
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>Currently, the table name is by default the same as the vector name. 
>'-' is not allowed in SQL table names. There was no consensus to restrict 
>map names to SQL names. In future, names containing incorrect characters 
>will be uniquely converted to correct names (function to do it, is not currently available).
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>Try v.convert in=agro-eco out=agro_eco
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>>dbmi: Protocol error
>>Broken pipe
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>Most probably failed because of '-' in vector (table) name.
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>>I've looked at the map in grass50 and nothing seems out of order. Other
>>maps convert with no problem. When triyng to display the map in grass51
>>I get following message:
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>>WARNING: coor files of vector 'agro-eco at sjors' is larger than it should be
>>         (220704 bytes excess).
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>Because it crashed during the import and vector was not correctly closed, 
>coor size was not written to the file. To correct this message, open
>and close the file in v.digit.
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>>WARNING: Cannot display areas, topology not available
>>OUT OF MEMORY!
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>Again, because it crashed topology was not written, use v.build.
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>>So I figured something's wrong with topology. So I went back to grass50
>>did v.support and tried again in grass51. Still it won't work.
>>Is this a bug or am I missing something? Anybody got a clue??
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>No topology is not the problem.
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>Radim
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