[GRASSLIST:409] Re: vmap

[Moritz Lennert]

Ian Macmillan said:
> Hi all, this seems like it must be an easy problem to solve, but I am
> struggling
> with it.  I would like to use the Digital Chart of the World data from
> NIMA
> (National Imagery and Mapping Agency).  However I am at a loss as to how
> to
> import this data into GRASS.  I downloaded the North America data from the
> NIMA
> website, but I get a folder that has lots of subfiles, and I am not sure
> which
> ones to work with.  The data is supposed to be in VPF (some department of
> defense thing) format, but I am not clear how to use it.   I couldn't find
> anything in the manual, book, or mailing list archives. Specifically all I
> want
> is a map with just political boundaries of the world.  Anybody worked with
> this
> data before?  I know that GISdatadepot.com has arcinfo vector data for
> each
> country, but as there are hundreds of countries, this would be tedious to
> download and also import.  Thanks for any input.

You can use the countries vector map from UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva:

http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/grid/downloads/boundaries.php

It is in e00 format.

See http://grass.itc.it/data.html for more info.

Moritz