g.download.location - GRASS GIS manual

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NAME

g.download.location - Download GRASS Location from the web
Get GRASS Location from an URL or file path

KEYWORDS

general, data, download, import

SYNOPSIS

g.download.location

g.download.location --help

g.download.location url=string [name=name] [path=path] [dbase=string] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

--help: Print usage summary
--verbose: Verbose module output
--quiet: Quiet module output
--ui: Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

url=string [required]: URL of the archive with a location to be downloaded; URL of ZIP, TAR.GZ, or other similar archive
name=name: Location name; Location name (not location path)
path=path: GRASS GIS database directory; Default: path to the current GRASS GIS database
dbase=string: Path to database, use path option instead; This option is obsolete and replaced by path

DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS

DESCRIPTION

g.download.location downloads an archived (e.g., .zip or .tar.gz) location from a given URL and unpacks it to a specified or current GRASS GIS Spatial Database. URL can be also a local file on the disk. If the archive contains a directory which contains a location, the module will recognize that and use the location automatically. First directory which is a location is used. Other locations or any other files are ignored.

AUTHORS

Vaclav Petras, NCSU GeoForAll Lab

SOURCE CODE

Available at: g.download.location source code (history)

Latest change: Tuesday Jul 13 11:56:30 2021 in commit: 9925460459b6cf4d7137e4f7a5bc46e795bd61e1