<div dir="ltr">I have redone the shape file, I am attching it again, and this is the error I get when I am trying to open it. The location is in india and spans two UTM zones and therefore I used lat lons<div><br><div><div>
Projection of input dataset and current location appear to match</div><div>Layer: Meghalay</div><div>DBMI-DBF driver error:</div><div>ERROR: Unable to create table: 'create table Meghalay (cat integer, TYPE varchar ( 10 ), IDENT varchar ( 24 ), LAT double precision, LONG double precision, Y_PROJ double precision, X_PROJ double precision, NEW_SEG varchar ( 10 ), DISPLAY varchar ( 10 ), COLOR varchar ( 10 ), ALTITUDE double precision, DEPTH double precision, TEMP double precision, TIME varchar ( 20 ), MODEL varchar ( 20 ), FILENAME varchar ( 254 ), LTIME varchar ( 20 ))'</div>
</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Sonali Saha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sahairc@gmail.com" target="_blank">sahairc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I am new GRASS use, and learning GRASS to use conservation literacy using rare plant databases. To start with I converted a Kml file of the state of Meghalaya India to a shapefile using DNRGarmin. However when I try to open the shapefile in GRASS I keep getting errors and the map of the opened file does not look anything like the original map. What did I do wrong. I am attaching the shapefile and dbf file, I used.<br>
<div><div><br></div><div>thanks in advance</div><div><br></div><div>Sonali</div><div>This is the message I get in the command output console</div><div><div>Projection of input dataset and current location appear to match</div>
<div>Layer: Meghalay</div><div>Counting polygons for 1 features...</div><div>Importing map 1 features...</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Building topology for vector map <Megh_tmp>...</div>
<div>Registering primitives...</div><div>1 primitives registered</div><div>258 vertices registered</div><div>Number of nodes: 2</div><div>Number of primitives: 1</div><div>Number of points: 0</div><div>Number of lines: 0</div>
<div>Number of boundaries: 1</div><div>Number of centroids: 0</div><div>Number of areas: -</div><div>Number of isles: -</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>WARNING: Cleaning polygons, result is not guaranteed!</div>
<div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Snap boundaries (threshold = 1.000e-007):</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Break polygons:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div>
<div>Remove duplicates:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Break boundaries:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Remove duplicates:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div>
<div>Clean boundaries at nodes:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Merge boundaries:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Change dangles to lines:</div>
<div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Remove bridges:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Building topology for vector map <Megh_tmp>...</div><div>
Building areas...</div><div>2 areas built</div><div>1 isles built</div><div>Attaching islands...</div><div>Number of nodes: 9</div><div>Number of primitives: 12</div><div>Number of points: 0</div><div>Number of lines: 0</div>
<div>Number of boundaries: 12</div><div>Number of centroids: 0</div><div>Number of areas: 2</div><div>Number of isles: 1</div><div>Number of areas without centroid: 2</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div>
<div>Find centroids for layer: Meghalay</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Write centroids:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>1 input polygons</div>
<div>Total area: 3.56766E+011 (2 areas)</div><div>Overlapping area: 0 (0 areas)</div><div>Area without category: 3.56766E+011 (2 areas)</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Building topology for vector map <Megh>...</div>
<div>Registering primitives...</div><div>3 primitives registered</div><div>17 vertices registered</div><div>Building areas...</div><div>2 areas built</div><div>1 isles built</div><div>Attaching islands...</div><div>Attaching centroids...</div>
<div>Number of nodes: 2</div><div>Number of primitives: 3</div><div>Number of points: 0</div><div>Number of lines: 0</div><div>Number of boundaries: 3</div><div>Number of centroids: 0</div><div>Number of areas: 2</div><div>
Number of isles: 1</div><div>Number of areas without centroid: 2</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>WARNING: Errors were encountered during the import</div><div>Try to import again, snapping with at least 1e-007: 'snap=1e-007'</div>
<div>(Tue Aug 13 15:32:05 2013) Command finished (1 sec) </div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>Sonali Saha, PhD.<br>Senior Biologist<br>The Institute for Regional Conservation<br>22601 SW 152nd Avenue<br>
Miami FL 33170
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