<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>I have not really thought about this in the GRASS context, not being much of a GRASS user myself, but you might look at Geonetwork as a metadata catalogue tool.<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br> Brent Wood<br><br><br/><div style='clear: both;'>Brent Wood<br>DBA/GIS consultant<br>NIWA, Wellington<br>New Zealand</div><br/>>>> stephen sefick <ssefick@gmail.com> 10/07/10 3:21 PM >>><br>I would like to keep metadata files for the maps that I import into<br>GRASS and also the maps that I create. Much like the metadata that is<br>provided by ... cough... ESRI. Is there a way to do this in GRASS?<br>Should I just store the meta data files as text files in the GRASS<br>location and then edit them with the additional GRASS processing<br>information?<br>thanks,<br><br>-- <br>Stephen Sefick<br>____________________________________<br>| Auburn University |<br>| Department of Biological Sciences |<br>| 331 Funchess Hall |<br>| Auburn, Alabama |<br>| 36849 |<br>|___________________________________|<br>| sas0025@auburn.edu |<br>| http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 |<br>|___________________________________|<br><br>Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are<br>so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and<br>make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the<br>annoying little problems of being mammals.<br><br> -K. Mullis<br><br>"A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal science."<br><br> -Robert Gentleman<br><BR>
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