On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:12:48PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > I've been working at trying bring data from either shapefile or e00 > file into GRASS 6.4.3 However some of the layers simply do not > import. The trouble seems to be that some of the column names in the > shape dbf violate naming limits and result duplicate column names > which cause a failure. E00 files (same data but different format) also > result in a failure. As far as I can tell, the cause is the same. In > some tables the process of importing the data results in duplicate > field names due to truncation. Switching to the SQLite driver did not > help here. > > The data files are USGS coverages created originally in the '90s. If > anyone has a recommended utility that can handle this problem, please > let me know.
The only answer I'm aware of to this problem is the "cnames=" option of v.in.ogr, which allows you to rename the columns on import. I've had to use it often for precisely the reasons you're seeing. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
