M.E.Dodd wrote: > Am I doing something silly here, I have a file open in qgis 1.6 on windows pc > then go to vector>data management>export to new projection. Then choose the > projection and filename and press ok but nothing happens. > > The vector layer open in qgis comes originally from mapinfo (as .tab), it is > in osgb 1936, and I am trying to save as a shapefile in WGS 84 or one of the > other CRS’s. > > I have used this tool once or twice and its worked but normally it does not > work. So far I have not found which types of files it works with and which > ones fail.
Creation of the shapefile will fail if the attribute columns are not unique. dbf has a ten character limit for column names and so unique fields in the tab file may no longer be unique in a dbf after truncation. Regards, Craig _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
