[GRASS-user] Copying a location subset to a new location

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Luigi Ponti <lponti at inbox.com> wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 01:26, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Luigi Ponti <lponti at inbox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello list.
>>>
>>> I have been making subset copies of GRASS locations using (the very
>>> useful)
>>> g.laptop.sh add-on
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> Currently it is the only approach I could find.
>>
>> I used r.pack/r.unpack and v.pack/v.unpack in the past which
>> packages maps individually. Using g.mlist or likewise you could
>> write a "for" loop to package a set of maps.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Markus:
>
> I did not know about those grass7 addons. The vector versions are there in
> the trac svn browser. However, I don't see the raster ones
> (r.pack/r.unpack).

I checked: They are already part of GRASS 7.

> At any rate, I have modified g.laptop.sh to run using the g.parser
> interface. Cleaned up indentation and comments a bit. I am not sure it can
> be useful. Maybe it could function as a g.copy.location kind-of-thing. It
> still has a problem with deleting tmp raster folder at the end of the
> script. Other than that, it seems to work fine on my Win7 32-bit box under
> winGRASS 64svn. It is attached for review just in case.

Great, Luigi! While I don't manage to check, some other user will perhaps
do it. Then it could be maintained in the Addons repo.

Best
Markus