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Name
g.download.project — Download GRASS project from the web
Get GRASS project from an URL or file path
Keywords
general, data, download, import
Synopsis
g.download.project
g.download.project --help
g.download.project url=string [name=name] [path=path] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags
- --help
Print usage summary
- --verbose
Verbose module output
- --quiet
Quiet module output
- --ui
Force launching GUI dialog
Parameters
- url=string [required]
URL of the archive with a project to be downloaded
URL of ZIP, TAR.GZ, or other similar archive- name=name
Project (location) name
Project name (not path to project)- path=path
GRASS database directory
Default: path to the current GRASS database
Description
g.download.project downloads an archived (e.g., .zip or .tar.gz) project (previously called location) from a given URL and unpacks it to a specified or current GRASS Spatial Database. URL can be also a local file on the disk. If the archive contains a directory which contains a project, the module will recognize that and use the project automatically. The first directory which is a project is used. Other projects or any other files are ignored.
Examples
Download the full GRASS sample project within a running session
Download and unpack the full North Carolina sample project into the user’s HOME directory:
g.download.project url=https://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_spm_full_v2beta1.tar.gz path=$HOME
Download the full GRASS sample project in a temporary session
In a temporary session, download and unpack the full North Carolina sample project into the user’s HOME directory:
grass --tmp-project XY --exec g.download.project url=https://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/north_carolina/nc_spm_full_v2beta1.tar.gz path=$HOME
See Also
g.mapset, g.mapsets, r.proj, v.proj, g.proj.all
Author
Vaclav Petras, NCSU GeoForAll Lab
Source Code
Available at: g.download.project source code (history)
Latest change: Wednesday Nov 12 08:25:04 2025 in commit: 631d74bc6dbc09177e9c50eaf5debf9b107f7401
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