[GRASS-user] Adding a point vector

[Kurt Springs]

I just reran it with everything but grass closed.  I'm still having the problem.

Kurt

On Sep 24, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Markus Metz wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Kurt Springs <ferret_bard at mac.com> wrote:
>> I couldn't get the attribute manager working.  I tried an old favorite v.in.db.  I exported the wedge_tomb table, added what I needed.  Now I'm trying to import it.  This is what's happening
>> 
>> GRASS 6.4.1 (Mega_Ireland):~ > v.in.db --overwrite table=wedge_tomb driver=sqlite database=/Users/kurtsprings/Document/wedge.db x=nat_grid_e y=nat_grid_n key=cat output=wedge_tomb
>> WARNING: Vector map <wedge_tomb> already exists and will be overwritten
>> DBMI-SQLite driver error:
>> Unable to open database: unable to open database file
>> 
>> WARNING: Unable to open database </Users/kurtsprings/Document/wedge.db> by
>>         driver <sqlite>
>> ERROR: Unable to open database <$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/sqlite.db>
>>       by driver <sqlite>
>> 
>> I had been able to do this a year ago, but I can't find my notes on this.  Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> This can be a sqlite problem. Recent sqlite refuses to open a database
> file if any other file in the same directory is kept open by any other
> application. This is a new feature of new versions of sqlite (not
> GRASS), I remember that this was not an issue about a year ago. You
> could check if you have any other application running that has opened
> some files there, e.g. QGIS. Just a guess.
> 
> Markus M
> 
>> On Sep 24, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Martin Landa wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> 2011/9/24 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
>>>>> A cruder way might be to make a new 1-point vector map and
>>>>> then overlay it.
>>>> 
>>>> nothing crude about that method, if anything I'd call it a little
>>>> less direct, but safer. shrug, v.in.ascii + v.patch added to the
>>> 
>>> why safer?
>>> 
>>> Anyway using this method you are producing extra vector map used only
>>> for patching.
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa
>> 
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