Hi, of course, I just forgot again that the column name can be to long for a shapefile. Thank you Micha! Maybe the Error message can be improved in such cases.
/johannes On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Micha Silver <mi...@arava.co.il> wrote: > On 16/05/2013 11:48, Johannes Radinger wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to export a point vector to a .shp file. This works except for >> a column that does not get exported. I have tried it in grass70 and >> grass65 (in Ubuntu) >> but both without success. The attribute column that is not exported was >> created >> in the attribute table view and populated with a sqlite-command. The >> column >> is of type DOUBLE and stores the value 0.5 for all points. >> >> Here the error (in grass65, but the same in grass70) : >> v.out.ogr -e --overwrite input=barriers@PERMANENT type=point >> dsn=/path/to/output >> Warning 1: Field Riv of width 1000 truncated to 255. >> Warning 1: Field Site of width 1000 truncated to 255. >> Warning 1: Field type of width 1000 truncated to 255. >> ERROR 6: Failed to add field named 'passability' >> Exporting 20 geometries... >> >> Maybe the name "passability" is too long? The dbf component of a > shapefile is limited to column names of 10 characters. > > What is the reason for that and how can it be solved? >> >> Best regards, >> Johannes >> >> This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> grass-user mailing list >> grass-user@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/grass-user<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user> >> >> This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. >> >> >> > > -- > Micha Silver > GIS Consulting > 052-3665918 > http://www.surfaces.co.il > >
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