[GRASS-user] Failed export of vector, missing attribute column

[Micha Silver]

On 16/05/2013 11:48, Johannes Radinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to export a point vector to a .shp file. This works except for
> a column that does not get exported. I have tried it in grass70 and 
> grass65 (in Ubuntu)
> but both without success. The attribute column that is not exported 
> was created
> in the attribute table view and populated with a sqlite-command. The 
> column
> is of type DOUBLE and stores the value 0.5 for all points.
>
> Here the error (in grass65, but the same in grass70) :
> v.out.ogr -e --overwrite input=barriers at PERMANENT type=point 
> dsn=/path/to/output
> Warning 1: Field Riv of width 1000 truncated to 255.
> Warning 1: Field Site of width 1000 truncated to 255.
> Warning 1: Field type of width 1000 truncated to 255.
> ERROR 6: Failed to add field named 'passability'
> Exporting 20 geometries...
>
Maybe the name "passability" is too long? The dbf component of a 
shapefile is limited to column names of 10 characters.

> What is the reason for that and how can it be solved?
>
> Best regards,
> Johannes
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