[GRASS-user] help with vector handling needed

[Hamish]

> > - is there an other resource of country boundaries which is more
> > easily usable?
> 
> vmap0? See in fregis list archives for somebody's ftp server with
> vmap0 already converted from it's native format to shapefile (few
> months ago). I think I heard there's a new vmap0 release available,
> but propably only native format (a bit tough, yet convertable, find
> hints in the Grass lists archives and in Grass news pdf, by Markus
> Neteler).


This is a good place to look too:

http://keck.library.unr.edu/data/esridatamaps/world.html

"admin98" is a classic source.



Hamish