[GRASS-user] About importing VMAP into GRASS... (as shapefiles)

[Nikos Alexandris]

copy from my mail in GDAL list:
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Hi GDAL list!

Finally, I accessed (with ogrinfo) and exported successfully into
shapefile (with ogr2ogr) something from the VMAP database.

Although I can see the polbnda polygons for instance, I still don't
understand this error message:

$ ogr2ogr polbnda.shp gltp:/vrf/home/nik/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia
'polbnda at bnd(*)_area'
GET_TABLE_ELEMENT: Invalid field number -1

What does this mean?
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Anybody got the same error?



On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:37 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> BTW,
> 
> Markus' scripts do their job (even with the error message!?)
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:29 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> > Thank you guys...
> > 
> > I think I solved it now!
> > 
> > I found in GDAL mailing list following statement:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > It sounds like the case sensitive path issue that bit me a while back.
> > > A lot of vmap data was saved with mixed upper and lower case file  
> > > names and
> > > file extentions.
> > > How I got around it is I placed the vmap0 data in a path without  
> > > any upper
> > > case letters in it (/home/paul/tmp/vmap0) and ran ogrinfo and  
> > > ogr2ogr from
> > > there.
> > 
> > by Paul Surgeon.
> > 
> > So, I just moved the v0eur folder out of my long
> > folder /home/nik/GeoData/World/VMAP which has a lot of dangerous Capital
> > letters ;-)
> > 
> > Now I get a decent output when I run:
> > $ ogrinfo gltp:/vrf/home/nik/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia
> > 'watrcrsl at hydro(*)_line'
> > 
> > Still didn't try to export anything but I think it will be easy since I
> > don't get any error messages from ogrinfo.
> > 
> > 
> > Than you all,
> > 
> > Nikos.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 11:02 +0100, sebastian sauer wrote:
> > > Fri 11 Jan 2008 06:17, Hamish wrote:
> > > > nikos.alexandris wrote:
> > > > > I still didn't find a way to import coastlines from the
> > > > > VMAP data base.
> > > why not RTFM!? http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_ogdi.html
> > > 
> > > as usual frank warmerdam's doc is fantastic.
> > > 
> > > > > I tried to look after the:
> > > > > 
> > > > > mv: missing destination file operand after `.'
> > > > > 
> > > > > error message but I can't figure it out.
> > > > 
> > > > there is a problem within the script.
> > > ACK. i second that. also i never really found the script useful that's
> > > why i never used it. :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > on a side note also don't expect VMAP0 data to be (overly) precise. YMMV,
> > > though, depending on the area you are interested.
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Nikos Alexandris
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Department of Remote Sensing & Landscape Information Systems
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
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Tel.  +49 (0) 761 203 3697 / Fax.  +49 (0) 761 203 3701 / Skype: Nikos.Alexandris
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