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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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