[GRASSLIST:2430] Re: Import vector map problems

[Daniel Tourde]

Hi Arne,

Thanks for your answer


> > dk_10gso.dbf  dk_10gso.sbn  dk_10gso.sbx  dk_10gso.shp  dk_10gso.shx
> 
> These files all belong to one .shp ! So the only one to import is
> dk_10gso.shp, the rest contains parts and will be used by GRASS during import
> (as far as I know).

Well, this is what I did. I just imported the .shp file as an ESRI
shapefile.


> If I understand right your .shp contains more then just
> one feature (e.g. contours, roads, etc.). GRASS only stores one attribute per
> feature  (Markus, correct me if I am wrong), so you first have to split your
> .shp's in ArcView.

Here I do not really understand.
For the moment, when I want to display the map I have imported, I only
get a black window with some contours in white. I am expecting however
to see forests, roads, lakes, cities...
How can I achieve this result?

I don't have ArcView, does it mean that for the moment, Grass5 is
unuseful for me?


> Other then that the import works fine, but beware of large
> files! I have 512MB in my machine and ran out of memmory.... In that case
> .e00 is the better format.

Well, I only have .shp (and friends) files and the basic idea is to use
Grass5 as a format converter....


		Daniel


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