[GRASS-windows] import vector with v.in.ascii

[Stefanie Obmann]

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Dear users and administrators!

 

I just started using GRASS and working with it on Windows and QGIS.

I can’t solve the problem of including or installing the module of importing vector files from ascii files.

I can’t manage to get v.in.ascii into my GRASS modules of the GRASS plugin. I got the files of grass-6.2.3 where I can find some files named v.in.ascii but I don’t know what to do further with them.

 

I would be grateful for your help!

 

Kind regards,

steffi

 

 

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[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Stefanie Obmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Dear users and administrators!
>
> I just started using GRASS and working with it on Windows and QGIS.
>
> I can't solve the problem of including or installing the module of importing
> vector files from ascii files.
>
> I can't manage to get v.in.ascii into my GRASS modules of the GRASS plugin.

What do you mean precisely?
QGIS for Windows contains GRASS including the plugin. As ar as I
know, v.in.ascii is included, too.

> I got the files of grass-6.2.3 where I can find some files named v.in.ascii
> but I don't know what to do further with them.

Please note that grass-6.2.3 is very old. If you downloaded QGIS for
Windows from here, you get 6.3.0 included:
http://download.qgis.org/downloads.rhtml

Are your data in ASCII format? Or in another format?

Best,
Markus
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Stefanie Obmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hello!
> Ok, I try to explain my problem more precisely:
> I can't find the v.in.ascii tool in my tool or module list of grass.

Where do you search? There should be a GRASS toolbox.

> I think I'm missing some files that it doesn't work.
> So I need to know how to include it to my GRASS tools list.
> For example I can find some parts (as I would say) of this tool (v.in.ascii)
> in the 'bin' or the 'doc' directory. But I can't find files in the 'scripts'
> directory.

v.in.ascii should be in bin/.
There is a GRASS shell in the toolbox, you can type any GRASS command
there to launch it.

> So my hopefully precise question is what I have to do or to change in any
> script that I can find the v.in.ascii in my module list?

Again, just tp be sure: what file do you want to import? An ASCII table?

Best,
Markus

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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Stefanie Obmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Dear Markus,
>
> So with my GRASS version I just have the possibility to do the import with
> the GRASS shell and the command?

Of course not. There is also a built-in graphical user interface (see
File-> Import)
and the QGIS interface (at least).

> I'm not really familiar with programming. I thought there would be a module
> I could integrate. So is there maybe a newer version of GRASS which includes
> the whole module? F.e. GRASS 6.0?

If you want to expand the GRASS toolbox in QGIS, you "simply" need
to expand the related XML file and add an icon. It will be documented
on the QGIS site.

> I don't know what data it is exactly. I got a GRASS Mapset with the
> following hierarchical structure lwd_lambert/lwd/vector/point_vect/...
> where lwd_lambert is the mapset name. the map (-name) directory 'point_vect'
>
> consists of 6 files without file format extension (which are cidx, coor,
> dbln, head, hist, topo)

Ah!
That's already a GRASS vector map. Nothing to import at all.

> I think it's almost impossible to help because I can't describe my state
> very well. Maybe you can give me another advice otherwise I'd like to thank
> you a lot for everything so far.

You can just *use* the map by opening this with settings
location: lwd_lambert
mapset: lwd

The vector map name will then appear in the list once you click on
"display vector map" (there is an icon for that, see
 http://mpa.fbk.eu/markus/como2006/img25.html
 -> "GRASS vector maps" icon
)

...and you are done... :)

Best
Markus
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