[GRASS-user] v.in.ascii: DBMI-DBF driver error

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Nick

Odd. Please check the permissions of
the ../dbf/ directory.

There is nothing special to install
for DBF support.

Markus

On 3/11/11, Nick Jachowski <njachowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the help Markus, but when I try it on my computer I still get the
> same error message:
> -----------------------------
> GRASS 6.4.0RC5 (latlong_coral):~/grassdata/latlong_coral > v.in.ascii
> input=kyy.csv out=kyy skip=1 fs=, cat=3
> Scanning input for column types...
> Maximum input row length: 86
> Maximum number of columns: 9
> Minimum number of columns: 8
> DBMI-DBF driver error:
> Cannot create dbf database: ~/grassdata/latlong_coral/PERMANENT/dbf/
>
>
> WARNING: Unable to open database <~/grassdata/latlong_coral/PERMANENT/dbf/>
>          by driver <dbf>
> ERROR: Unable to open database <~/grassdata/latlong_coral/PERMANENT/dbf/>
>        by driver <dbf>
> -----------------------------
> I'm a complete newbie to the db part of GRASS; was I supposed to do anything
> special during the installation to allow the dbf driver to work?
>
> I've tried this on two separate machines and have the same error message in
> both, one is running GRASS 6.4.0RC5 on Ubuntu 9.10 the other is running
> GRASS 6.4.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 in a vm.
>
> Sorry to bother the list again!
> Nick
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Nick Jachowski <njachowski at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > I'm trying to use v.in.ascii and I'm getting a "DBMI-DBF driver error."
>> > -------------------
>> > GRASS 6.4.0RC5 (latlong_coral):~/grassdata/latlong_coral > v.in.ascii
>> > input=kyy.csv out=kyy skip=1 fs=, columns='x, y, cat int' cat=3
>>                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> ... this cannot work since you did not specify the types for x and y.
>>
>> Doing so, I get:
>>
>> v.in.ascii input=kyy.csv out=kyy skip=1 fs=, columns='x double
>> precision, y double precision, cat int' cat=3
>> Scanning input for column types...
>> Maximum input row length: 86
>> Maximum number of columns: 9
>> Minimum number of columns: 8
>> Column: 1 type: double
>> Column: 2 type: double
>> Column: 3 type: integer
>> Column: 4 type: string length: 3
>> Column: 5 type: string length: 3
>> Column: 6 type: double
>> Column: 7 type: double
>> Column: 8 type: double
>> Column: 9 type: double
>> WARNING: Table <kyy> linked to vector map <kyy> does not exist
>> ERROR: Number of columns defined (3) does not match number of columns (9)
>>       in input
>>
>> Of course all the other columns need to be defined as well.
>> Or just use the auto-detector:
>>
>> v.in.ascii input=kyy.csv out=kyy skip=1 fs=, cat=3
>> Scanning input for column types...
>> Maximum input row length: 86
>> Maximum number of columns: 9
>> Minimum number of columns: 8
>> Column: 1 type: double
>> Column: 2 type: double
>> Column: 3 type: integer
>> Column: 4 type: string length: 3
>> Column: 5 type: string length: 3
>> Column: 6 type: double
>> Column: 7 type: double
>> Column: 8 type: double
>> Column: 9 type: double
>> Importing points...
>>  100%
>> Populating table...
>> Building topology for vector map <kyy>...
>> Registering primitives...
>> 23 primitives registered
>> 23 vertices registered
>> Building areas...
>>  100%
>> 0 areas built
>> 0 isles built
>> Attaching islands...
>> Attaching centroids...
>>  100%
>> Number of nodes: 23
>> Number of primitives: 23
>> Number of points: 23
>> Number of lines: 0
>> Number of boundaries: 0
>> Number of centroids: 0
>> Number of areas: 0
>> Number of isles: 0
>> v.in.ascii complete.
>>
>> ...
>> > It seems a lot of people get this error (according to google...), but I
>> > haven't seen a solution.
>>
>> I doubt this statement :)
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Markus
>>
>