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