[GRASS-user] Importing Converted Points File

[Markus Metz]

Try adding skip=1 to the v.in.ascii command.

Also see the v.in.ascii manual [1]

Markus M

[1] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.in.ascii.html


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> Generally: If you have suggestions to improve the manual pages, please
>> don't hesitate to suggest text replacements/additions!
>
> Markus,
>
> I'll do that. It was my reading too quickly rather than any ambiguity in
> the man page.
>
> Next problem:
>
> GRASS 6.4.0svn (sitesLCC):/usr4/grassbase > v.in.ascii
> input=/usr4/keypoints/sites_lcc.txt output=sites format=point columns='x
> double precision, y double precision, name varchar(24)' x=1 y=2
> Scanning input for column types...
> Maximum input row length: 47
> Maximum number of columns: 3
> Minimum number of columns: 3
> ERROR: x column is not of number type
>
> and here's the input data file:
>
> longitude|latitude|name
> -5056134.11|5898037.45|name 1
> -5057005.89|5898228.79|name 2
> -5057306.14|5899149.81|name 3
>
> It must again be something I did incorrectly in either the re-projection
> or specifying the v.in.ascii command. I'm not seeing it, however.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
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