<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi Simone,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>If you are an ArcGIS user you may find setting up a GRASS location via QGIS and the GRASS plugin simpler to start with as it steps you through the process.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>There are details of how to do this in LITA Practical 3 here: <a href="http://www.pushingthesensors.com/teaching-materials/">http://www.pushingthesensors.com/teaching-materials/</a></span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>You can load the raster you have into QGIS, import it into your new GRASS location and fit the location to your imported raster for all subsequent processing. You can then continue to use via the GRASS plugin or in standalone
GRASS.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Best,</span></div><div><span>Rebecca</span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, 21 November 2013, 8:05, Markus Neteler <neteler@osgeo.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Simone Gabbriellini<br clear="none"><<a href="mailto:simone.gabbriellini@gmail.com" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:simone.gabbriellini@gmail.com">simone.gabbriellini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> mmm, I really give up... it's impossibly complicated to have a result.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Maybe I should try
to find another GIS software, less powerful but simpler.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Or another dataset?<br clear="none">You are trying to import the "Digital Chart of the World" which is fairly old.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If that's the scope, we may assist. If you really wanted a modern<br clear="none">dataset, perhaps use a different one?<br clear="none"><a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata#Global_Administrative_Areas" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata#Global_Administrative_Areas</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best<br clear="none">Markus<div id="yqtfd05447" class="yqt8411394400"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">grass-user mailing list<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org">grass-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none"><a
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