[GRASS-user] GRASS Vector Export Standards

Hi,

1)Thinking about exchanging Grass vector data between users, I was wondering wich is the the best format to export GRASS vectors, so that they keep GRASS vectors characteristics like two areas sharing the same boundary, the use of centroids, multilayers and database. Any clue?

2)Here in Brazil, ESRI shapefile is the “industry standard” for gis data exchange, is there any “Open Source standard”?

Thanks!

Pablo Torres Carreira


Quer fazer um álbum íncrivel? Conheça o Windows Live Fotos clicando aqui.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Pablo Carreira
<pablotcarreira@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

1)Thinking about exchanging Grass vector data between users, I was wondering
wich is the the best format to export GRASS vectors, so that they keep GRASS
vectors characteristics like two areas sharing the same boundary, the use of
centroids, multilayers and database. Any clue?

Do you want to exchange between *GRASS* users? Then I would
just package the files (won't work if attibutes are in PostgreSQL or mySQL).

2)Here in Brazil, ESRI shapefile is the "industry standard" for gis data
exchange, is there any "Open Source standard"?

Well, also in the Open Source GIS world ESRI shapefile appears to
be the de-facto standard.

Markus