[GRASS-user] Location not displayed when grass started

GRASS GRASS user
1

   I want to understand how grass7x finds data when starting.

   In my grass database, ~/data/grassdata/, I created a subdirectory named
ODOT2014.gdb with all the OpenFileGDB files in it. However, when grass7.x
starts it does not display that location in the left-side window.

   Grass will also not create a substitute location because location names
created by the GUI cannot contain certain characters, including a period.

   I want to create a separate location for these data then reproject them
from the target project directory.

TIA,

Rich

2

Hei Rich,

Good to see that you don`t give up even if you ran into several issues or undocumented peculiarities.

As for the grass database:
I am not sure if I understand your question well, but in principle only GRASS itself should create or delete files and folders within the GRASS database.

At import data is converted into GRASS format, and GRASS creates the files and folders needed for that.

In short, do not write or delete files and folders in your GRASS database "manually" you can messup your DB.
You would not save shape files in the FGDB directory either, would you?

Cheers
Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: grass-user [mailto:grass-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: 14. september 2016 19:49
To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [GRASS-user] Location not displayed when grass started

   I want to understand how grass7x finds data when starting.

   In my grass database, ~/data/grassdata/, I created a subdirectory named ODOT2014.gdb with all the OpenFileGDB files in it. However, when grass7.x starts it does not display that location in the left-side window.

   Grass will also not create a substitute location because location names created by the GUI cannot contain certain characters, including a period.

   I want to create a separate location for these data then reproject them from the target project directory.

TIA,

Rich
_______________________________________________
grass-user mailing list
grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user

3

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:

Good to see that you don`t give up even if you ran into several issues or
undocumented peculiarities.

Stefan,

   I've used grass since 4.0 and, before I defenestrated and moved everything
to linux, MapInfo. In the late 1980s I used PC-ARC/Info so I'm quite
familiar with GIS software and the myriad of source data formats.

As for the grass database: I am not sure if I understand your question
well, but in principle only GRASS itself should create or delete files and
folders within the GRASS database.

   That's what I've believed, too. But when grass creates a new location it
wants the projection or geographic coordinates to assign from a source file.
Other than the metadata.xml file with this data set I have no file to inform
grass of the information it wants.

In short, do not write or delete files and folders in your GRASS database
"manually" you can messup your DB. You would not save shape files in the
FGDB directory either, would you?

   That's why I put the FGDB files in their own subdirectory.

   With point data I let grass define a WGS84 location and a new mapset. Then
outside of grass I added the two .txt files, one in ASCII point format the
other in Standard format. Grass had no problems running v.in.ascii on these
files.

Rich