[GRASS-user] v.out.ogr drops some columns with non informative error

[Moritz Lennert]

On 17/12/14 16:26, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>> wrote:
>
>
>     Are you exporting to shapefile ?
>
>     There is a 10-letter limit to column names and apparently also a 255
>     columns limit:
>
>     http://webhelp.esri.com/__arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?__TopicName=Geoprocessing%__20considerations%20for%__20shapefile%20output
>     <http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Geoprocessing%20considerations%20for%20shapefile%20output>
>
>
> Oops, thanks! that solved.  is there no way to get grass speak that, at
> least in verbose mode?

AFAICT, the error message comes from OGR, not GRASS. So best would be to 
get OGR to provide a more helpful error message. I don't think it would 
be very practical for GRASS to check for OGR errors and then translate 
them to something more understandable.

Moritz