[GRASS-user] Using shapefiles

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Jose, 

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:10:07 +0200 "Jose Gomez-Dans"
<jgomezdans at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> I have used GRASS for analysing raster data before, and found it very
> useful. Howeve, I am at a loss at what the best way to import a
> shapefile and display it. I have tried a simple shapefile (<800
> polygons), and the import stage takes a long time (6.0.1), close to
> 10 minutes. Is there a step-by-step guide on how to quickly import a
> shapefile (whose extent you don't know), and display it?

As Tyler also mentioned, v.in.ogr will help.

For read-only-support you could give v.external a try, which only
"links" the shapefile into your mapset. However, you cannot do any
modifocations using this "linked" data.

Best
	Stephan

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