<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Paul Shapley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.shapley@gmail.com" target="_blank">p.shapley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p>I'm attempting to get some maps and use them in GRASS, which gives me
a choice of formats to download from. Can anyone tell me if any one of
these formats is better and will allow direct import into GRASS 7.0.2.
without transformation.</p>
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<p>For one type of topography map I can get either GML2, DWG or File Geodatabase.</p>
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<p>For another type of Terrain type map I can get either Shape, GML3 or DWG.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>look at what GDAL/OGR can read, I remember I was able to open File Geodatabase with OGR. Shapefile works for sure. I don't have experience with GML, theoretically it could work.</div><div><br></div><div>Anna</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>I have googled and looked at the choices provided by <br></p><div><br></div><div>Hi Jim,<br><br></div><div>We use either shapefile (not ideal for using annotation) or import directly into a Postgres/PostGIS database first. <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Paul J. Shapley </b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">MSc CGeog (GIS) FRGS</span></font><br></span><b><br></b></div></div>
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