[GRASS-user] GADM & Polygon files in general

[Thomas, Timothy (IFPRI)]

I sent this originally on 8/5/2010, but it never got posted.

 

I have been using GRASS for 5 months.  I feel pretty good about writing
code for processing and manipulating rasters.  But I seem to have
trouble with vectors.  My goal was to import GADM (well-known admin
boundary file) into GRASS.  I have it as a shapefile.  It is around a
gigabyte in size.  It has taken me nearly 3 months (with the computer
grinding away for most of the three months, night and day) in importing
a country at a time, then merging them together.

 

Does anybody already have GADM in GRASS format?  Second, is there any
way to import polygon files more efficiently or effectively?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

   Tim

 

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Timothy S. Thomas

Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

2033 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20006-1002 (Room 5035)

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skype: timothy.s.thomas

 

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