NAME
v.in.gns - Imports US-NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) country files into a GRASS vector points map
KEYWORDS
vector, import, gazetteer
SYNOPSIS
v.in.gns
v.in.gns help
v.in.gns file=string [vect=string] [--overwrite]
Flags:
- --overwrite
- Force overwrite of output files
Parameters:
- file=string
- Uncompressed GNS file from NGA (with .txt extension)
- vect=string
- name for new vector map
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). These GNS files are encoded in UTF-8 which
is maintained in the GRASS database.
NOTES
The current DB connection is used to write the database table.
Generally, column names longer that 10 characters are shortened to
10 characters to meet the DBF column name restrictions.
To filter outliers (points outside of a country), the v.select
module can be used to perform point-in-polygon tests. v.select
saves only the GNS points falling into a country polygon into the new
points map.
SEE ALSO
db.connect,
v.select
REFERENCES
GEOnet Names Server files for countries and territories
Column names explanations
AUTHOR
Markus Neteler, MPBA Group, ITC-irst
Last changed: $Date: 2007/07/09 14:06:12 $
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