[mapserver-users] join shp with csv

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2014-03-13, 9:36 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> On 2014-03-13, 7:07 AM, Jörg Thomsen wrote:
>>
>>
>> $ ogrinfo join.csv lookup -summary
>>  INFO: Open of `join.csv'
>>        using driver `CSV' successful.
>>  FAILURE: Couldn't fetch requested layer lookup!
>>
>> This is my only hint but unfortunatly I don't know what ogr wants to
>> tell me.
>>
> 
> You seem to be following my examples very closely from
> http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/join.html#example-3-join-from-shape-dataset-to-csv-file
> which is good, but be careful, "lookup" in my example is the OGR
> layername; in your case it will be different.  You should just try
> "ogrinfo join.csv" to get a list of available layers through OGR.  See
> some examples of that in action:
> http://mapserver.org/input/vector/ogr.html#how-to-use-ogrinfo
> 

Ah but I almost forgot the most important switch for layernames:
""ogrinfo join.csv -summary"

Good luck there!

-jeff




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