GREAT!!! Thanks Wim :D I renamed the file to less than 8 characters and it works fine now!
Thank you all for your time and patience with a newbie ;) Cheers! -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wim Blanken Sent: Lunes, 21 de Noviembre de 2005 09:26 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] DBASE file error. Item 'nombredep' not found. Hello Alejandro, I think this has to do with the 8 character limit with dbf files. Have you tried limities the shapefile name to 8 characters? Regards, Wim Blanken Geon bv The Netherlands ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alejandro Mejia Evertsz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:14 PM Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] DBASE file error. Item 'nombredep' not found. > Thanks Lowell, > I opened the .dbf file on Map Maker's database editor utility, and > noticed the column name is all UPPERCASE, but I tried lowecase and > lowercase with same results. > NOMBREDEP and nombredep > > If case is important to mapserver, I'll save it now with uppercase. > I also tried to remove the quotes "" but same thing. > > Thanks again for your help. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Lowell.Filak > Sent: Lunes, 21 de Noviembre de 2005 09:03 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] DBASE file error. Item 'nombredep' > not found. > > Mejia Evertsz writes: > >> Hi list! >> >> I'm new to this mapserver stuff, and I'm having a trouble for >> creating a map. >> I have a map called guate.map with only one layer (to start getting >> used to mapserver). >> The layer uses deptoswgs84.shp >> <http://168.234.218.12/deptoswgs84.shp> >> , deptoswgs84.shx <http://168.234.218.12/deptoswgs84.shx> and >> deptoswgs84.dbf <http://168.234.218.12/deptoswgs84.dbf> >> Database (.dbf) has a column called "nombredep" and I created a class >> item under the layer with this name, but the server returns: >> >> DBASE file error. Item 'nombredep' not found. >> >> I don't know what else to do, cause I even changed the name of the >> column to change the class item then, but have the same problem. >> Is the database file corrupted or not compatible with mapserver? >> Am I doing something wrong? >> Am I missing any parameters in the map file? >> >> You can see the error here: >> http://168.234.218.12/mapservdemo/ >> (I'm using the Itasca demo templates cause I'm not an expert with >> this mapserver thing, and I don't wanna create my own html's and have >> more mistakes than now) > > Alejandro, > > Double check capitalization of the item name. > HTH > > Lowell > >
