ESRI Shapefiles use the ancient DBF format for attribute data. DBFs restricts the length of field names. When I have to work with Shapefiles, I try to stick to 8-character field names and avoid spaces and special characters.
-Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf New! 720-334-7734 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography GPG Public Key: http://www.h4h.net/ebwolf.public.key.txt On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Oz Nahum <nahu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello GDAL Devs, > > I encoutered a small problem, where I don't understand why field names in > ESRI Shape files created by gdal, are truncated. > Here is a code snippet: > > field_LUC = ogr.FieldDefn() > field_LUC.SetName('LAND USE CODE') > field_LUC.SetType(ogr.OFTInteger) > field_LUC.SetWidth(15) > dst_layer.CreateField(field_LUC) > > > Yet, when I examine the output file the attribute table contains a field > called "LAND USE C", > so 3 characters are missing. > > Would be happy to know what am I doing wrong. Thank you very much, > > -- > Oz Nahum > Graduate Student > Zentrum für Angewandte Geologie > Universität Tübingen > > --- > > Imagine there's no countries > it isn't hard to do > Nothing to kill or die for > And no religion too > Imagine all the people > Living life in peace > > > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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