#1258: Trouble with external OGR sources and relative paths (v.external)
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Reporter: benducke | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.1
Component: Vector | Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: v.external, OGR | Platform: Linux
Cpu: Unspecified |
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I Think I found a problem with OGR datasources linked
in using v.external.
If I change into a directory with shapefiles and then
issue the following to link in the data in "myShapefile.shp":
v.external dsn=. layer=myShapefile output=linked_in
And then change into another directory and issue any command
that wants to work on "linked_in", e.g.:
g.remove vect=linked_in
v.info linked_in
I get:
ERROR: Cannot open layer 'myShapefile'
But when I change back into the directoy where I used
to be when running the v.external command, it works.
So I think v.external should take care to always link
to the absolute location of the source in the file
system (if I specify "dsn=" as an absolute path,
things work fine).
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1258>
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