[GRASSLIST:8314] Re: Converting from text to dbf format

The raw data is basically a NMEA string that gets awk'd into three columns
of data: Julian Day, Lat, and Long. After creating a vector of all sample
sites, I wanted to link a second table to the sample sites vector with other
attributes
about the sites that I created in OpenOffice. I guess I would assign the
second table as layer two?

Of course I should have thought of v.in.ascii. I'll give it a go.

Thanks!

~ Eric.

v.in.ascii

What format is the raw data in?

Hamish

The raw data is basically a NMEA string that gets awk'd into three
columns of data: Julian Day, Lat, and Long. After creating a vector of
all sample sites, I wanted to link a second table to the sample sites
vector with other attributes
about the sites that I created in OpenOffice. I guess I would assign
the second table as layer two?

Of course I should have thought of v.in.ascii. I'll give it a go.

you might also check out gpsd to handle the NMEA stream, be it live or
frozen.

http://gpsd.berlios.de/

Hamish