Sample datasets

Most of GRASS's tutorials and help page examples are built around two sample datasets. You can download them from the GRASS website (or a local mirror)

• Spearfish, South Dakota - this dataset has been with GRASS for many years.

• North Carolina - this is a newly developed dataset with modern layers. (e.g. shortest path bus routing, SQL database queries)
  • The original shapefiles for Wake county in the North Carolina dataset are available at http://www.wakegov.com/gis/services/data.htm
  • Metadata for these shapefiles are available at ftp://wakeftp.co.wake.nc.us/gis/Webdownloads/METADATA/

If you would like to experiment with some local data, have a look at the Global datasets wiki page.