[GRASSLIST:5558] Re: v.in.e00, v.in.ogr problems

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 30 19:47:21 EST 2005


> The problem now is that when
> using v.in.ogr with the coverages, I get an ERROR: Cannot open data 
> source.
> 
> Mapset <scale100k> in Location <US_dd_NAD83>
> GRASS 6.0.0beta1 > v.in.ogr dsn=/volumes/wooster/test/rail1
> output=rail  layer=ARC type=line
> ERROR: Cannot open data source


are you sure that you are using dsn and layer correctly?

for shape files, dsn should be the directory where data is and layer
should be the name of the shape file (without the .shp extension).

is your import filename really called ARC.shp?



Hamish




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