[mapserver-users] join shp with csv

[Jörg Thomsen]

Hello Jeff,

yes, this looks better.
> $ ogrinfo ./shapes_join/join.csv join -summary
> INFO: Open of `./shapes_join/join.csv'
>       using driver `CSV' successful.
> 
> Layer name: join
> Geometry: None
> Feature Count: 208
> Layer SRS WKT:
> (unknown)
> osm_id: String (0.0)
> name_join: String (0.0)

but the join in mapserver still doesn't work.

Jörg


Am 13.03.2014 13:39, schrieb 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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