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] [-- verbose] [--quiet]

Flags:¶

--overwrite

 

Allow output files to overwrite existing files

--verbose

 

Verbose module output

--quiet

 

Quiet module output

Parameters:¶

file=string

 

Uncompressed GNS file from NGA (with .txt extension)

vect=string

 

Name for output 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. If this is a problem consider choosing another database driver with db.connect. 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, Trento, Italy Last changed: $Date: 2011-11-08 10:42:51 +0100 (Tue, 08 Nov 2011) $ Full index © 2003-2014 GRASS Development Team