[GRASS-user] v.overlay not working?

[Hamish]

MarkusN wrote:

>>  You may reconnect the table with v.db.connect.
Paolo:
> Done, it works.
> Unclear how the spurious cat crept in, however.
...
> So, apparently spaces in file name cause the issue.

right, the old vector/.../dbln file used spaces as the delim so out-of-spec(? [dbf]) layer names caused that trouble. In GRASS 7 that's been changed to a pipe (|), and support for reading dbln files using pipe as the field separator has been backported to GRASS 6. Also v.in.ogr in 6.x _should_ be replacing whitespace in dsn names with underscores now, but if the problem still seen in a new import maybe that isn't working? (fixed in relbr64 >1 year ago)

see  https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1328


regards,
Hamish