[GRASS-user] Importing ESRI shape files

[Hamish]

Zahid Parvez wrote:
> I will be very grateful if any one could tell me in brief how i could
> import SHAPE files into GRASS and convert it into GRASS data.


with the v.in.ogr module, for from the menu: File->Import vector map ->
multiple formats using OGR.


for general Arc->GRASS migration tips see
   http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Help#Migration_from_other_GIS_Software


Hamish