[GRASS-user] Choosing mapset from command line

[Moritz Lennert]

On 13/02/15 16:58, Johannes Radinger wrote:
> Maybe I expressed myself unclear or mixed things up:
>
> I want to get the text based menu to select e.g. a location and a
> mapset, which I think is called "text-based location wizzard" [1]. I
> mixed that up with the "welcome screen". And of course I don't need the
> welcome screen.
>
> I was just confused because the wiki [2] says:
> "*grass70 -text:* Start GRASS using the text-based user interface. The
> user will be *prompted* to choose the appropriate location and mapset."
> However I get automatically started into my last session which is
> actually the definition of:
> "*grass70 -text *Start GRASS using the text-based user interface.
> Appropriate location and mapset must be set by environmental variables
> (see examples bellow) otherwise taken from the last GRASS session."
>
> So is the location wizzard not exisiting anymore in GRASS70?

No. AFAIK all ncurses based interfaces have been removed.

> If not, is
> g.mapset from within an existing mapset the recommended way to go to
> create and start into a new mapset? Another option would be only to
> create the mapset with g.mapset from inside an existing mapset and than
> to restart grass with "grass70 newmapset".

You can use the -c flag to create a new mapset or even a new location:

grass70 -c /data/GRASS/DATA7/nc_spm_08/mynewmapset

grass70 -c EPSG:31370 /data/GRASS/DATA7/new_location/new_mapset



Moritz

>
> [1]
> http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Location_Wizard#Text_based_location_wizard
> [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/grass7.html
>