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I have used Grass GIS imported a .shp file; I now want to export this file to MySQL.

I understood that MySQL will contain the function of all three the files necessary in a Shape file system (.shp - .db - .shx). The import works fine but when I try to export to MySQL I get the following error. 

ERROR: Unable to open OGR data source 'Test'

At some stage there was also a message that indicated that MySQL or MySQL Spatial is not available.

I have not used Quantum GIS before; I do however have purchased Globalmapper and want to use MySQL instead of Shapefiles. The database is too big to recapture all the info in MySQL I will have to find a way to convert the data.

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Your best bet is to use OGR directly from the command line. OGR's MySQL Driver page has an example of how to use ogr2ogr to import a shapefile:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mysql.html

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