Country Data Processing

This tutorial describes how to

• find free data of country on Internet
• create new GRASS location
• import found data into GRASS
• create new vector layers from existing data
• create labels
• display map of a country

GRASS Installation

Required elements

• GRASS GIS system installed
• download SPEARFISH data http://grass.itc.it/sampledata/spearfish_grass60data-0.3.tar.gz

Create directory structure required for this tutorial

• dataset directory mkdir ~/grass
• input data directory mkdir ~/grass/indata

Create GRASS location using SPEARFISH data to be able create new locations

  $ cd ~/grass
  $ tar zxf spearfish_grass60data-0.3.tar.gz

Start GRASS

  $ grass62 spearfish/PERMANENT

Obtaining Data

http://www.gis.psu.edu/