[GRASS-user] US states and county layers?
Luigi Ponti
lponti at inbox.com
Wed May 19 06:43:33 EDT 2010
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Matthew Mulbrandon
> <mulbran at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I was looking for grass layer with US states and US counties. Can't find
>> > using google but it must be around somewhere. Does anyone know where I can
>> > download this info or is it back to converting shp files.
>>
>
> I guess that you can get them here:
> http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html
> as SHAPE files and then import with v.in.ogr into a location in
> Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection as I understand from here:
> http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/mapping/a_projections.html
>
Alternative sources of administrative data:
GADM database
http://www.gadm.org/
Natural Earth
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/
Regards,
Luigi
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