Failed import
Matt Kelso
via web
http://data.fractracker.org/cbi/dataset/datasetPreviewPage?uuid=~01...
I was wondering if you could tell me why the above link failed in the upload process. All it said was:
"This dataset encountered an error during import. Because of the error, this dataset may not be used."
I can tell you that it has a ridiculous number of columns, but I uploaded one just like it earlier which worked. I can also tell you that both datasets made me click on a button to stop running a script on the second page of the metadata.
Sidebar wishlist: would it be difficult to have a button which converts all applicable columns in a .csv to numeric values?
Support Staff 2 Posted by higgins on 15 Apr, 2011 06:31 PM
Hmm, well, I can tell you what the problem is, but I'm not sure how it got into this state.
The problem is that the latitudes and longitudes in the dataset were not coerced from strings to numbers, and when it went to compute the spatial search indexes, it got confused.
Normally, this coercion is performed automatically when you select the columns to use at latitudes and longitudes.
Could you attach the file you uploaded and I can see if I can reproduce the issue and get a better handle on where it went wrong? (It's possible that the "slow script" error you got messed things up --- the coercion depends on Javascript setting some fields properly.)
Thanks,
Mike
P.S. I'll add your wishlist item to our feature wishlist!