On Jan 11, 2008 10:42 AM, Craig Leat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> BTW the dbf is too big (94,000 rows) to load into OpenOffice Calc.
>
How about OpenOfice Base? It appears to open dBase files. I don'f have
a dbf file here to test it but the web page says it does.
Daniel
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On Jan 11, 2008 5:42 AM, Craig Leat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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
>
>there are already several bug reports about problems (bad experiences) with the
>10 characters limit in dbf. A simple solution is to use sqlite instead.
>Regards,
> Otto
And even if you aren't an sqlite guru, you just have to install it on your
system and use the
gui-based sqlitebrowser, which
Wow! Lots of advice flooding in. Thanks to all.
v.in.ogr Still fails to import the dbf even if sqlite is my internal
database. I solved the problem by using the cnames option to v.in.ogr.
Regards
Craig
Patton, Eric wrote:
there are already several bug reports about problems (bad experience
Hi,
2008/1/11, Craig Leat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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 reporti
Hi Craig,
there are already several bug reports about problems (bad experiences) with the
10 characters limit in dbf. A simple solution is to use sqlite instead.
Regards,
Otto
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:04:05 -0700
"Richard Greenwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 5:42 AM, Craig Lea
