Hi Roger! <SNIP>
> > The OGR driver truncates (I think to 254 characters), so use > writeSpatialShape() in maptools instead, passing your large number through > the max_nchar= argument. Please read the details in ?write.dbf - field > widths above 254 are not portable. writeSpatialShape() worked for me. The file was read by Geoserver with the extra text as well. Thanks! Michael > Roger > >> >> Any advice? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Michael >> >> >> > > -- > Roger Bivand > Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of > Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, > Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 > e-mail: roger.biv...@nhh.no > > -- Michael Denslow I.W. Carpenter Jr. Herbarium [BOON] Department of Biology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina U.S.A. -- AND -- Communications Manager Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections sernec.org 36.214177, -81.681480 +/- 3103 meters _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo