[GRASS-user] simple way to join some attribute data w/o geometries

[Markus Neteler]

On Jan 8, 2008 4:20 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 3:36 PM, Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
...
> > Question is:
> >
> > Patch the actual OGR sources or the stuff in grass6/db/drivers/ogr or
> > the db.in.ogr module itself? Where would be the best place to put the
> > type recognition?
>
> db.in.ogr simply calls v.in.ogr which calls OGR lib which calls OGR-CSV
> driver... the best place is there:
>
> - if .csvt is there, use it
> - if .csvt is absent, try recognition. Have env var to disable/enable this.
> - if .csvt is absent and recognition disable, proceed as usual
>
> Or rewrite db.in.ogr as C program...

Ah sorry, another idea:

- or fix that C program to become an $ETC tool for GRASS which simply
creates the .csvt file! That could be an elegant and easy solution.

Store in tools/csvdetect/ or so then within GRASS.

Good luck,
Markus