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  <pre wrap=""><div class="moz-txt-sig">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Matthew Mulbrandon
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    <pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">&gt; </span>Hello,
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">&gt;</span>
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">&gt; </span>I was looking for grass layer with US states and US counties. Can't find
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">&gt; </span>using google but it must be around somewhere. Does anyone know where I can
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">&gt; </span>download this info or is it back to converting shp files.
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I guess that you can get them here:
 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
 href="http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html">http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html</a>
as SHAPE files and then import with v.in.ogr into a location in
Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection as I understand from here:
 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
 href="http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/mapping/a_projections.html">http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/mapping/a_projections.html</a>
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Alternative sources of administrative data:<br>
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GADM database<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gadm.org/">http://www.gadm.org/</a><br>
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Natural Earth<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
Luigi<br>
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