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

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 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.

I have added a related note in r63791 and r63792.

Markus