Silvia,
I am surprised that Open Office couldn't open the DBF. Most open source
desktop GIS programs like OpenJUMP can open and edit the attributes of
Shapefile. Is that an option?
If not, you could send me the file and I could see if I could open it in
Microsoft Excel.
Landon
Office Phone
I don't know if this would matter but file name length could be something to
look at.
Some dbf files that open in Excel won't open in Access unless renamed to 8
(I think) characters or less.
Maybe if you rename it shorter and try it might work.
Definitely be careful with a live shapefile dbf
Thanks to all!
The problem is in the length, but not in the column name but in the
dimension of the numbers given in the column header. I really don't
know exactly what they means... but it works!!
For example:
heigth,N,33,31
is not a valid length for an attribute column to be saved with
My usual trick for dealing with dbf files is to import them into R and
manipulate them there. The read.dbf and write.dbf functions in the R foreign
library (see http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html) seem quite
robust. R is a programming environment for statistical computing; it's
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Silvia Franceschi
silvia.frances...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
do some of you know how to edit a shapefile's dbf file?
I tried with OpenOffice Calc but I have the following error:
Connection to file could not be established
I have to add some attribute that I
Suchith,
It is good to hear this news and it will be great to hear how ICA and
OSGeo can complement each other.
You have identified enviable ICA Open Source GIS goals, many which are
shared with OSGeo. This is great. Have there been any discussions yet
about how these goals will be achieved?
