[GRASSLIST:4499] Re: shapefile vs SDTS : which is recommendable?

[Hamish]

> I was just wonderng:
> 
>   Which dataset format would be recommendable, given both SDTS and
>   Shapefile as possible options?

GRASS 5.7 + v.in.ogr or v.external works really well for Shape files.

5.7's v.in.ogr or v.external should work on SDTS files as well, I
couldn't tell you which format would work better, only that the shape 
files are probably the better tested format.

http://gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html


Again for emphasis, 5.7 is the way to go if you are working with vector
data.



Hamish