DESCRIPTION

v.in.gns imports US-NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) country files (Gazetteer data) into a GRASS vector points map. The country files can be downloaded from the NGA GNS Web Server (see below). The script generates a vector point map. Only original files can be processed (unzip compressed file first).

NOTES

Column names longer that 10 characters are shortened to 10 characters to meet the DBF column name restrictions.

The current DB connection is used to write the database table.

SEE ALSO

db.connect

REFERENCES

GEOnet Names Server files for countries and territories
Column names explanations

AUTHOR

Markus Neteler, MPBA Group, ITC-irst

Last changed: $Date: 2005/05/24 16:12:15 $


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