[GRASS-dev] Let's enrich the demolocation with a country borders map

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

esp. for Windows users the demolocation should be copied into a/the
grassdata directory (I think there is still a bug there which prevents
the installer from setting up things as ready-for-use: it is bad to
not have [win]GRASS usable out of the box).

Since the demolocation does not contain anything interesting, I have
locally prepared a copy of
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/

Size:
[neteler at oboe demolocation]$ ls -la PERMANENT/sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 neteler gis 36864 Jun 15 12:59 sqlite.db

[neteler at oboe demolocation]$ ls -lart PERMANENT/vector/country_boundaries
-rw-r--r--. 1 neteler gis  53741 May 26 14:29 topo
-rw-r--r--. 1 neteler gis 178613 May 26 14:29 sidx
-rw-r--r--. 1 neteler gis 153289 May 26 14:29 coor
-rw-r--r--. 1 neteler gis  21277 May 26 14:29 cidx
-rw-r--r--. 1 neteler gis    296 May 26 14:30 head
-rw-r--r--. 1 neteler gis    829 Jun 15 12:59 hist
-rw-r--r--. 1 neteler gis    113 Jun 15 12:59 dbln

Content:
v.info -c country_boundaries
Displaying column types/names for database connection of layer <1>:
INTEGER|cat
CHARACTER|SOVEREIGNT
CHARACTER|TYPE
CHARACTER|ADMIN
CHARACTER|ADM0_A3
CHARACTER|NAME
CHARACTER|NAME_LONG
DOUBLE PRECISION|POP_EST
DOUBLE PRECISION|GDP_MD_EST
CHARACTER|ECONOMY
CHARACTER|INCOME_GRP
DOUBLE PRECISION|WIKIPEDIA
CHARACTER|FIPS_10
CHARACTER|ISO_A2
CHARACTER|ISO_A3
CHARACTER|CONTINENT
CHARACTER|SUBREGION
CHARACTER|REGION_WB


"Terms of Use
All versions of Natural Earth raster + vector map data found on this
website are in the public domain."
See http://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/

In essence, the GRASS 7 users should be presented after the
installation with a simple, prepopulated demolocation. The space
consumption is small and the value to show newbies how to get into
GRASS high.

Opinions?

Markus