Accessing the Spearfish Dataset

[Malcolm Williamson]

On Wed, 1 May 1996, Jerry W. Cox wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>         I am a very new user of Grass and have ran into a problem accessing
> the Spearfish Database.  At GRASS startup, I enter the location of spearfish
> and mapset of PERMANENT, and receive an error message saying that I do not
> have permission to access the data.  I recently read the solution on the
> newsgroup, but did not think to save it.  My thank you to those who respond
> directly to jerry at snowcrest.net.
> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> Jerry W. Cox
> 
Jerry, 
The problem is that you are not the owner of PERMANENT. Instead, create a 
mapset using your login as a name (that's the default, though you can 
name it anything). Access (read only) to the PERMANENT mapset is through 
the command "g.mapsets". Any map layers that are created or modified must 
be in _your_ mapset. This is the normal protocol for using GRASS.

If you have anymore questions, feel free to e-mail me. Regards,
--
Malcolm D. Williamson - GIS Specialist           E-mail: malcolm at cast.uark.edu
Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies      Telephone: (501) 575-6159
Ozark Rm. 12                                        Fax: (501) 575-5218 
University of Arkansas              
Fayetteville, AR 72701
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