[GRASS-user] Re: v.rast.stats

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Sandile Gumede <akasandile at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. I have downloaded the GTOPO30 data from their
> website, its a compressed file e020n40.tar.gz I guess these are the
> coordinates for part of Africa. I have decompressed the file and inside
> there are 8 files; .DEM, .DMW, .GIF, .HDR, .PRJ, .SCH, .STX, .SRC.
>
> Is the .GIF file the one I'm supposed to project in order to use it in
> GRASS?

Better use the HDR file. I have added a note here:

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets#GTOPO30

Markus