[GRASS-user] Switching locations on-the-fly

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Rich Shepard wrote
> I need to import a lot of data each having one of several projections. It
> is quicker for me to create a new location for each one, import it, then
> re-project it to the base location and a layer-specific mapset. This
> involves invoking grass, creating a new location, importing the .shp or
> .gdb, shutting down grass, restarting grass in the base location,
> re-projecting the new layer, then removing the (temporary) importing
> location.
> 
>    Is there a way to switch locations within a running grass instance,
> equivalent to creating/switching mapsets within a location?
> 
> Rich
> 
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another quite comfortable way may be: 

reproject your data by ogr2ogr on the command line in a script, then do a
bulk import into grass



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best regards
Helmut
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