[GRASSLIST:7403] Re: v.in.sites

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:47:41AM -0700, Ian MacMillan wrote:
> Hi all, I am having trouble getting v.in.sites working.  I have a 3d 
> sites file from GRASS 5.3 that has seven different floating point 
> attributes.  When I use v.in.sites, I get the following error:
> 
> v.in.sites input=pinatubo output=test
> 
> GRASS_INFO_ERROR(661,1): Default database is not set
> Input format: dimension: 3   strings: 0   FP:7
> 
> I just want to use the normal dbf that grass uses. Do I need to set up 
> the database table before importing the old format?  Shouldn't that be 
> done automatically for me?  When I run v.info on the new file I get:
> v.info test
> ERROR: Cannot open old vector test at ianmacmillan on level 2
> 
> After running v.build, I get:
> v.build test
> WARNING: coor files of vector 'test at ianmacmillan' is larger than it 
> should
>          be (14 bytes excess).
> Building topology ...
> 0 primitives registered
> 0 areas built
> 0 isles built
> Attaching islands:
> Attaching centroids: Topology was built.
> Number of nodes     :   0
> Number of primitives:   0
> Number of points    :   0
> Number of lines     :   0
> Number of boundaries:   0
> Number of centroids :   0
> Number of areas     :   0
> Number of isles     :   0
> 
> 
> I must be doing something stupid here.  Any ideas?

Probably GRASS is stupid :-)

The message
 GRASS_INFO_ERROR(661,1): Default database is not set
suggests that db.connect must be run first. See its
manual page for a copy-paste solution for DBF:

  db.connect driver=dbf database='$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/'

Then v.in.sites should work.

Markus

 
> Thanks,
> Ian
> 
> Using 6.1cvs (6-25-2005) on OSX 0.3

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