On Jan 11, 2008 5:42 AM, Craig Leat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a shapefile and attributes in a dbf file. The dbf has two columns > where the first ten characters of the column names are identical. The dbf > driver appears to only consider the first ten letters of the name and so > v.in.ogr fails reporting that two columns have the same name. Is there a way > to only import selected columns? I could also delete a column before > importing, but I am lacking some basic DBase know how so any pointers will > be greatly appreciated. > > BTW the dbf is too big (94,000 rows) to load into OpenOffice Calc. > > Regards > > Craig
dbf field names are limited to 10 characters. ogr2ogr (part of GDAL) has a -select clause which would allow you to select only specified columns, but might not be able to distinguish between the identical column names either. Rich -- Richard Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
