world data for GRASS

[Antonio Rodriguez Verdugo]

At 12:09 AM 31/08/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello dear grass community,
>For an internet GIS project in medical field (monitoring of the human
>and animal rabies) i'm searching a world political map.
>I lost some hours in surfing to try to find such a thing but the most
>adapted to my plan was the world data found in the grass data but it's
outdated.
>I'll try to import some dataset demo of  arc explorer but i miss some
>polygons and i lost the label of the polygon.
>I don't want a big map, only a free  accurate political map (i don't want
>to zoom more than at a country level)

Hi Hervé,

Maybe you should go to the NIMA's page (National Imagery & Mapping Agency,
USA) : 
                www.nima.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/ 

There you will find their own free software to extract the type of data you
want.

You should look for the World Vector Shoreline-Vector Product Format or the
World Vector Shoreline databases.

With the free software they offer you should be able to convert those data
to Grass

If you experience any problem, contact me directly.

Antonio Rodríguez-Verdugo
IRNAS-CSIC
Sevilla, Spain