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[Michael Barton]

On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:04 AM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:42:49 -0800 (PST)
> From: Craig Leat <Craig at pid.co.za>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] v.in.ogr fails on dbf with long column names
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hi
>
> I have a shapefile and attributes in a dbf file. The dbf has two  
> columns
> where the first ten characters of the column names are identical.  
> The dbf
> driver appears to only consider the first ten letters of the name  
> and so
> v.in.ogr fails reporting that two columns have the same name. Is  
> there a way
> to only import selected columns? I could also delete a column before
> importing, but I am lacking some basic DBase know how so any  
> pointers will
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> BTW the dbf is too big (94,000 rows) to load into OpenOffice Calc.
>

Open it in OpenOffice database module. This is very easy to use (set  
the $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf directory as the data  
source). You can change field names without even looking at the data.

Michael


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C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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> Regards
>
> Craig
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