[GRASS-user] Using shapefiles

[Jose Gomez-Dans]

Hi Hamish, Stephen and Tyler,
Thanks for your reply.

On 6/26/06, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> generic:
> v.in.ogr dsn=mapname.shp out=mapname
> g.region v=mapname
> d.vect mapname type=area


OK, I forgot to mention that I indeed used v.in.ogr  (I know of no other way
of importing shapefiles into GRASS, so I thought that this wasn't needed).
Apparently, it is a known problem that files take so long to load up.

Thanks all for your replies.
Jose
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