[GRASSLIST:9413] Re: Reading and converting VMAP0

[Hamish]

> >> I am trying to import vmap0 files into GRASS using the very useful 
> >> article by Marks Neteler in GRASS Newsletter 3, with Lorenzo  
> >> Moretti's binaries on Mac OSX (Grass 6.1cvs of Nov. 22). I removed 
> >> all the trailing periods, lowercased the filenames, but I can't  
> >> get anything to read the files. When I run ogrinfo
> >>
> >> [Nick:local/grasslib/bin] nick% ./ogrinfo -ro -summary gltp:/vrf/ 
> >> Users/nick/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia 'polbnda at bnd(*)_area'
> >> FAILURE:
> >> Unable to open datasource `gltp:/vrf/Users/nick/v0eur/vmaplv0/ 
> >> eurnasia' with the following drivers.
...
> >>   -> OGDI
...

"Users" is not lower case?


> >> Nothing I've tried seems to work. Has anybody had success with  
> >> this? Is it possible that there is something wrong with the  
> >> binaries? ogrinfo works fine with shapefiles, but doesn't seem to  
> >> like VPFs.

Ok on linux, haven't tried on a mac. OGDI lib missing? you might need
to ask on the GDAL mailing list.

$ locate libvrf


> Just in case anyone else is in the same boat, I installed William  
> Kyngesburye's gis libraries for Mac OSX, and these were able to  
> convert vmap0 files to shapefiles successfully. I don't know why this 
> didn't work with the library files installed by Lorenzo Moretti's  
> installation of GRASS - but in any event, I'm happy.
> 
> It would be a big service for someone to convert all that data to  
> shapefiles and make it available on the web. Is there an advantage to 
> keeping it in the original VMAP0 format?

a) who can host 2GB data for popular download? (bit torrent tracker?)
b) the license is public domain, but some ambiguous language has been
snuck in there. (some parts (c) Australian gov't; ERSI?)


Hamish