[GRASS-user] Estimating import time for large data file

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 29 May 2020, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> grass --help is your friend ;-)

Moritz,

Good to know; I never tried this.

> 	grass -c epsg:4326 GISDBASE/LOCATION
> replace GISDBASE and LOCATION with the respective names
> -c can also be used with a file:
> -c /path/to/georeferenced/file

Thanks for the reminder.

> Another, untested, path for possibly speeding up import: use ogr2ogr with
> the -simplify option to first simplify the geometry, if that is possible
> in your case. Would be interesting to benchmark v.in.ogr alone against
> ogr2ogr -simply + v.in.ogr.

I'll consider doing this test. When I run a shell script, or the command for
a long running process, I use the 'time' tool with it.

Regards,

Rich