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 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
