[GRASS-user] database(s) in grass

[Ricardo Oliveira]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:20:26 +0200
Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it> wrote:
 
> I assume that your table is lacking an integer column "cat".
> Please tell us how you launched the v.digit command.
> 
> Unrelated:
> The _grass_internal_database_encoding was fixed recently, it now
> depends on this GRASS version you use.
v.digit -n map

> Generally you don't need to generate the basedados.db database if you
> want to create a new map - GRASS will do this for you. It is best to
> follow this approach:
> 
> # example for storing DB in mapset directory (keep single quotes):
> db.connect driver=sqlite
> database='$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/sqlite.db' db.connect -p
> 
> This will put the file sqlite.db (or however you name it) into
> the related mapset directory. The single quotes prevent from expanding
> the variable names. GRASS internally substitutes these variables to
> the correct path (which you can verify with g.gisenv)

I have tried versions 6.2.1 and devel and none of them creates the
file...

> 
> Suggestion:
> 
> 1. do
> 
> # example for storing DB in mapset directory (keep single quotes):
> db.connect driver=sqlite
> database='$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/sqlite.db' db.connect -p

Using this approach the result is: "no such file"

> 2. do
> 
> v.digit -n newmap
> 
> Then go into the settings dialog and define the table columns.
> This will create in this moment to sqlite database file and the
> new table linked to 'newmap'. Then digitize...

> Markus

Thanks :)