[GRASS-user] Original location: How to create from the command line ?

[Moritz Lennert]

On 19/01/09 17:16, Glynn Clements wrote:
> "Peter Löwe" wrote:
> 
>>>> is there an (easy) recipe to create a completely new location from
>>>> scratch without using a GUI ?
>>>>
>>>> To be precise: If GRASS is started for the first time in "-text" mode
>>>> (=no GUI) ** without having a sample location like Spearfish or North
>>>> Carolina around**, how can location parameters (projection, extent,
>>>> EPSG...) be handed over to set up a very first location ?
>>> Just type in the name of the location you want to create and GRASS will 
>>> prompt you for the parameters.
> 
>> That's true. But is there also a way to provide the parameters
>> _without_ interaction with the user (-> GRASS scripting & automation)
> 
> You can create a new location and mapset with "g.proj -c ...", then
> make it current with g.mapset. But those are GRASS commands, and only
> work within GRASS.

I imagine that you can create your own location by having a script 
create the location directory, the PERMANENT mapset directory and the 
PROJ_INFO, DEFAULT_WIND and PROJ_UNITS files, or ?

Moritz