Re: [GRASS-user] Natural Earth: public domain GIS datasets

2010-01-17 Thread John A Stevenson
Luigi Ponti wrote: Dear users, I did not see this cited in the mailing list archive so I thought others may find it useful as a source of basic GIS layers. Natural Earth http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ They seem to import fine into GRASS, and vectors have clean and informative attribute

Re: [GRASS-user] Natural Earth: public domain GIS datasets

2010-01-17 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, John A Stevenson john.steven...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Luigi Ponti wrote: ... There is a lot of nice data on there.  I've had some trouble trying to import the vector data, however.  I keep getting a buffer-overflow with v.in.ogr (see below).  It happens with

Re: [GRASS-user] Re: [GRASS-dev] New WinGrass-Installer (r40386)

2010-01-17 Thread Markus Neteler
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Markus Metz markus.metz.gisw...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I tested the new installer, doesn't work for me because it can't access mapsets because access is not available: access: no such file or directory. There is also some encoding issue in wxGUI, I can't

Re: [GRASS-user] Python scripting and GRASS

2010-01-17 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Sonja, On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Sonja Jankowfsky sonja.jankowf...@cemagref.fr wrote: Greetings, I have some questions concerning Python scripting for GRASS under windows. [I don't have much experience on Windows] I'm relatively new to GRASS, and I'm neither familiar with Python

Re: [GRASS-user] Python scripting and GRASS

2010-01-17 Thread Glynn Clements
Markus Neteler wrote: Can I use SWIG? Do I have to install it extra, or is there an integrated version? SWIG is an extra software which generates extra Python bindings. You do not necessarily need it for GRASS-Python programming, it depends on the level of integration you want to