[GRASSLIST:2880] Re: SOSI files

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, anne-claire serres wrote:

> Hello !
> Does anybody know what is a SOSI file ? I think it is a vector file but
> from which kind of GIS or CAD tools ? May I import it in Grass as a .dxf
> file ?

I'm afraid it is a Norwegian standard vector storage format:

http://www.statkart.no/standard/sosi/html/welcome.htm

SOSI GIS as search keys in Google give a number of commercial programmes
for converting SOSI to shape and other formats, but all on pages in
Norwegian. 

Good luck!

Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 93 93
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
and: Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of
Gdansk, al. Mar. J. Pilsudskiego 46, PL-81 378 Gdynia, Poland.