[GRASSLIST:2941] Re: data imput

[Nick Cahill]

Your problem might be that you're using Mac line breaks instead of 
Unix. Macs traditionally used a different character to indicate line 
breaks from Windows or Unix. It's changed now with OSX - I get the 
impression that programs are inconsistent in whether they use the old 
Mac or new Unix/OSX breaks. GRASS expects UNIX line breaks and will 
fail if you use Mac line breaks. There are a number of programs which 
will convert from one to another; I use BBEdit; there's a free version 
available at versiontracker 
(http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/604). Open your text 
file in BBEdit; there should be a series of little icons at the top of 
the document, one of which is a file icon; pull down this menu, and you 
should see the first three items as "Macintosh", "Unix" and "DOS". If 
your document has "Macintosh" checked, change it to "Unix", save and 
try again. Again there are other ways to do this, probably more 
efficient; but this has worked for me. Good luck,

Nick Cahill



On Mar 14, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Martin O'Loughlin wrote:

> i am a newbe, i had a look in the archives and couldn't find what i 
> was looking for. I am attempting to plot a series of points on to a 
> map.  i created a CSV file using excel, 3 columns long. lat and site 
> name. using grass 5.0.2 on Mac OSX. i attempted to import using 
> s.in.ascii but failed.
>
> The output:
>
> s.in.ascii - line 2 ** invalid format **
> 51.60745351 -2.462143461 C>ickladerovensel
>  s.in.ascii - line 3 ** invalid format **
> 50.95993341 -2.469930701 Goathill>_St_Peterd
>
> Couple more lines in same format, i assume that it doesn't like the 
> co-ordinate system, why?
>
> The input, The first few lines,
>
> 51.71 -1.88 Ampney_St_Peter
> 50.74 -2.27 Askerswell
> 51.39 -2.2 Atworth
> 51.71 -2.55 Aylburton
> 51.53 -1.73 Badbury
> 51.21 -2.67 Badger Hole
> 51.55 -2.29 Badminton
> 51.34 -2.86 "Banwel_Rliverside"
> 51.34 -2.86 "Banwell_Winthill"
> 51.76 -1.88 Barnsley_Park
> 51.82 -1.71 Barrington_Park
> 51.76 -1.97 Barton_Farm
> 51.39 -2.33 Bathampton
> 51.3921163 -2.316229421 Bathford
> 51.40114675 -2.301914768 Bathford
> 51.14592931 -2.943640653 Bawdrip
> 51.05528912 -0.972583174 Bayford_Lodge
> 51.41788952 -2.618434278 Bedminster
> 51.75211021 -1.826143485 Bibury
> 51.824118 -2.116089022 Birdlip
> 51.91389265 -2.218100807 Bishops_Norton
> 52.08179284 -2.861085814 Bishopstone
> 51.73418223 -2.130340767 Bisley
> 51.66958563 -2.636317653 Boughspring
> 51.42850999 -2.02877093 Bowood_House
> 51.41024247 -2.258835361 Box
> 50.93244085 -2.583509737 Bradford_Abbas
>
> Could anyone suggest where i went wrong, thanks
>
> Martin O'Loughlin
>