[GRASSLIST:5417] RE: How to choose initial parameters?

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:49:04AM +0000, Yann Chemin wrote:
> Hi Jitendra,
> 
> A small help to find out information about your files
> without GRASS would be to use GDAL, that is a
> prerequisite to installing GRASS.
> 
> Gdalinfo /path/imagename.extension >
> /path/imagename.txt
> 
> This would create a small text file named
> 'imagename.txt' that is compiling projection
> information and related stuff.
> 


For those being interested I have written a small script
based on r.in.gdal which generates a new location from
a raster data set. 
This script will temporarily start GRASS and generate
the location, then it closes the GRASS session.

http://mpa.itc.it/markus/useful/
 ->  create_grass_location.sh

Script to create a new LOCATION from a raster data set
Usage:
   create_location.sh rasterfile newlocation_name [GISDBASE]
 
rasterfile: file to be imported (tiff, EOSAT, gif, jpeg...)
newlocation_name: new location to be created
GISDBASE: full path to GRASS database directory (optional)
          e.g. /ssi0/ssi/neteler/grassdata


Best regards

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Markus Neteler

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