[GRASSLIST:5559] Re: v.in.e00, v.in.ogr problems

[Harry Johnson]

I believe so. I was following the example for Arc/Info coverages.

I made dsn the coverage directory (rail1), and layer to the feature I 
wished
to import (Arcs/lines).

I'm a bit odd in that I don't really like the shapefile format and 
prefer to use
coverages and topology.

I'm looking into some other ideas, like making sure the coverages 
actually
had topology before I generated the .e00 files, the method of transfer 
(the .e00
files being tar'ed up on Solaris and untar'ed on OS X), UNIX line ends 
v. Windows
line ends, and of course, my general thick-headedness.

Cheers,

Harry Johnson

On Jan 30, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Hamish wrote:

>> 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
>