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

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> 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/Madi:

   Perhaps the most practical solution, at least for the interim, would be to
add a note to the module man page that if exporting to shapefiles ensure
column names are no loger than 10 characters. Unfortunate limitation in this
day and age, but we gotta' live with it.

Rich