[GRASSLIST:504] Re: Shipping data with GNU/Linux distributions

[Luis E Menoyo]

Making the NIMA VMAP available in GRASS format in order to give people a 
usefull easy to use dataset is a good idea.  But then if we are talking 
about a tutorial for beginners I would highly recommend not providing the 
data in GRASS format but actualy going thru the process of showing people 
how to import data into GRASS.

Having the data already in GRASS format, although convenient, does not 
address the issue of teaching people how to import their own data sets. It 
would have been useful for me to have a tutorial data set of DLGs, DRGs, 
and DEMs in their original format and then learn how to import, overlay, 
and manipulate them.  This way I would have been ushered thru the whole 
process from start to finish.  The Spearfish tutorial starts you off with 
the data already imported, thus skipping an important step.

Mabe what we need is a revised tutorial, a-la Spearfish, that also 
includes the import/export side of things.

My question on the inclusion of data on the GNU/Linux GRASS distribution 
would be:  Are we going for a sample data set or a tutorial data set? 






Hal Mueller <hal at mobilegeographics.com>
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As it happens I've had some off-list conversations with Markus about 
this topic in the last week or two.  What I'm beginning to work on is 
to prepare some excerpts of the Digital Chart of the World (NIMA 
VMAP) in Grass format.  The aim is to provide a general-purpose 
global vector dataset that anyone can use immediately as a starter.

Let me ask the community in general:  what layers would you most like 
to see?  Country boundaries and continents would rank high, 
obviously.  But what else?  Roads?  Airports?  City locations? 
Railroads?  Rivers/streams/lakes?

Reply to the list, please, so we can keep the discussion going.

H


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