[GRASS-user] ERROR: G_realloc: unable to allocate 17240000 bytes at dbfexe.c:224

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Crutchley, Simon
<Simon.Crutchley at english-heritage.org.uk> wrote:
> I ‘m trying to load a lidar point file with x,y,z data, but it only gets
> part way through before giving the above error. I’m on a Windows 7 (64 bit)
> PC using GRASS 6.4.2. I’ve seen other posts suggesting using later versions,
> but I can’t get later versions to load and have logged another post about
> that. Any other suggestions for 6.4.2? Thanks

You could skip building topology (I assume that you use v.in.ascii).

In GRASS GIS 7, there is the new:
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/v.in.lidar.html

Markus