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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] [--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

Table of contents

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.

SEE ALSO

g.mapset, g.mapsets, r.proj, v.proj, g.proj.all

AUTHOR

Vaclav Petras, NCSU GeoForAll Lab

SOURCE CODE

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

Latest change: Thursday Feb 03 11:10:06 2022 in commit: 547ff44e6aecfb4c9cbf6a4717fc14e521bec0be

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