[GRASS-user] Open source GIS cataloging software?

Sorry for the cross-posting. I was wondering if anyone has a unix (preferably) or windows program that can spider a directory, recursively searching for raster and vector data, and create bounding box polygons for each raster/vector it finds, with attributes indicating the path-to-file. Thanks!

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Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
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University of California, Davis
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Recently, I came across this: http://spatialguru.com/ideas/data_cataloguing_background

Bob Moskovitz
Seismic Hazard Evaluation Project
California Geological Survey
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Sorry for the cross-posting. I was wondering if anyone has a unix
(preferably) or windows program that can spider a directory,
recursively
searching for raster and vector data, and create bounding box
polygons
for each raster/vector it finds, with attributes indicating the
path-to-file. Thanks!

--j

--

Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS)
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
The Barn, Room 250N
Davis, CA 95616
Cell: 415-794-5043
AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn307@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307

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Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

Sorry for the cross-posting. I was wondering if anyone has
a unix (preferably) or windows program that can spider a
directory, recursively searching for raster and vector data,
and create bounding box polygons for each raster/vector it
finds, with attributes indicating the path-to-file. Thanks!

I suppose you could put something together with `find + xargs`, and then
try gdalinfo and ogrinfo against everything you find, then collect and
collate the results.

Hamish