[GRASS-user] Programmatically create location?

[Glynn Clements]

Paul Pick wrote:

>  I have a program which will generate products based on 
> a (disposable) user-defined lat/lon box, which could be 
> located anywhere in the world. How do I go about programmatically 
> creating a new location? I looked over the various docs and
> wiki entries and didn't see anything that looked like it.

To create a location, create the location directory, the PERMANENT
directory, and the DEFAULT_WIND file. If you need projection
information, also create the PROJ_INFO and PROJ_UNITS files (see
g.setproj for reference; g.setproj is interactive, so you can't use it
from another program).

To create a new mapset, create the mapset directory and copy the
DEFAULT_WIND file as the WIND file.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>