NAME
v.external.out - Defines vector output format.
KEYWORDS
vector,
export,
output,
external,
OGR,
PostGIS
SYNOPSIS
v.external.out
v.external.out --help
v.external.out [-frpg] [output=string] [format=string] [options=string[,string,...]] [loadsettings=name] [savesettings=name] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags:
- -f
- List supported formats and exit
- -r
- Cease using OGR/PostGIS, revert to native output and exit
- -p
- Print current status
- -g
- Print current status in shell script style
- --overwrite
- Allow output files to overwrite existing files
- --help
- Print usage summary
- --verbose
- Verbose module output
- --quiet
- Quiet module output
- --ui
- Force launching GUI dialog
Parameters:
- output=string
- Name of output directory or OGR or PostGIS data source
- Examples:
ESRI Shapefile: directory containing a shapefile
MapInfo File: directory containing a mapinfo file
PostGIS database: connection string, eg. 'PG:dbname=db user=grass'
- format=string
- Format for output vector data
- Options: AmigoCloud, BAG, BNA, CSV, Carto, Cloudant, CouchDB, DGN, DXF, ESRI_Shapefile, Elasticsearch, FITS, FlatGeobuf, GML, GPKG, GPSBabel, GPSTrackMaker, GPX, GeoJSON, GeoJSONSeq, GeoRSS, Geoconcept, Interlis_1, Interlis_2, JML, KML, LIBKML, MBTiles, MSSQLSpatial, MVT, MapInfo_File, MapML, Memory, MySQL, NGW, ODBC, ODS, OGR_GMT, PCIDSK, PDF, PDS4, PGDUMP, PostgreSQL, S57, SQLite, Selafin, TIGER, VDV, VICAR, WAsP, XLSX, netCDF
- Default: ESRI_Shapefile
- options=string[,string,...]
- Creation options
- Examples:
'SHPT=POINTZ': create 3D point Shapefile data
'GEOM_TYPE=geography': use geography PostGIS data
'SCHEMA=grass': create new PostGIS tables in 'grass' schema
- loadsettings=name
- Name of input file to read settings from
- savesettings=name
- Name for output file where to save current settings
v.external.out instructs GRASS to write vector maps in
external data format (e.g. ESRI Shapefile, Mapinfo, and others)
using
OGR library. PostGIS data can
be also written by
built-in
GRASS-PostGIS
data provider.
Number of available output formats (
v.external.out -f)
depends on OGR installation. 'PostgreSQL' format is presented also
when GRASS comes with PostgreSQL support (check for '--with-postgres'
in
g.version -b output).
To store geometry and attribute data in PostGIS database ('PostgreSQL'
format) GRASS uses built-in GRASS-PostGIS data
provider. PostGIS data can be written also by OGR library
when GRASS_VECTOR_OGR environmental variable is defined or
GRASS is not compiled with PostgreSQL support.
Creation options refer to the output format specified
by format option. See the list of valid creation options
at OGR formats
specification page, example
for ESRI
Shapefile
or PostgreSQL/PostGIS
format (section "Layer Creation Options"). Options are
comma-separated pairs (key=value), the options are
case-insensitive,
eg. options="SCHEMA=myschema,FID=cat".
Note that built-in
GRASS-PostGIS data provider
(
format=PostgreSQL) supports different creation
options
compared to PostgreSQL/PostGIS driver from OGR library:
- SCHEMA=<name> - name of schema where to create
feature tables. If schema doesn't exists, it's automatically created
when writing PostGIS data.
- FID=<column> - name of column which will be used as
primary key (feature id), default: fid
- GEOMETRY_NAME=<column> name of column which will
be used for storing geometry data in feature table, default: geom
- SPATIAL_INDEX=YES|NO - enable/disable spatial index on geometry column, default: YES
- PRIMARY_KEY=YES|NO - enable/disable primary key on FID column, default: YES
- SRID=<value> - spatial reference identifier,
default: not defined
- TOPOLOGY=YES|NO - enable/disable
native PostGIS
topology, default: NO
Options relevant only to topological output (
TOPOLOGY=YES):
- TOPOSCHEMA_NAME=<schema name> - name of PostGIS
Topology schema (relevant only for TOPOLOGY=YES),
default: topo_<input>
- TOPOGEOM_NAME=<column> - name of column which
will be used for storing topogeometry data in feature table,
default: topo
- TOPO_TOLERANCE=<value> - tolerance for PostGIS
Topology schema,
see CreateTopology
function for defails, default: 0
- TOPO_GEO_ONLY=YES|NO - store in PostGIS Topology schema
only data relevant to Topo-Geo data model, default: NO
- SIMPLE_FEATURE=YES|NO - build simple features geometry
in GEOMETRY_NAME column from topogeometry data, default:
NO
Note that topological output requires
PostGIS version 2 or later.
v.external.out can be used along with
v.external to process external
geodata in GRASS while writing out the results directly eg. in ESRI
Shapefile format:
# register Shapefile in GRASS mapset:
v.external input=/path/to/shapefiles layer=cities
# define output directory for GRASS calculation results:
v.external.out output=$HOME/gisoutput
# do something (here: spatial query), write output directly as Shapefile
v.select ainput=cities atype=point binput=forests btype=area operator=within output=fcities
Current settings can be printed using
-p or
-g flag.
v.external.out -p
output: /path/to/home/gisoutput
format: ESRI Shapefile
PostGIS data can be accessed directly using
GRASS-PostGIS data
provider (GRASS must be compiled with PostgreSQL support).
# register PostGIS table in GRASS mapset:
v.external output=PG:dbname=gisdb layer=cities
# define output PostGIS database for GRASS calculation results stored as simple features:
v.external.out output=PG:dbname=gisdb format=PostgreSQL
# do some processing...
Note: If the environment variable
GRASS_VECTOR_OGR
is defined, or GRASS is compiled without PostgreSQL support then GRASS
will use PostgreSQL driver from OGR library for reading and writing
PostGIS data.
# define output PostGIS database for GRASS calculation results stored as topological elements:
v.external.out output=PG:dbname=gisdb format=PostgreSQL options=topology=YES
# do some processing...
Note: PostGIS topological access is supported only in
built-in
GRASS-PostGIS data provider.
To restore original settings, ie. use the GRASS native format, type:
Current settings can be stored to file by specifying
output option.
# define output PostGIS database for GRASS calculation with
# results stored as topological elements:
v.external.out output=PG:dbname=gisdb format=PostgreSQL \
options=topology=YES savesettings=gisdb_topo.txt
# ... and do some processing in PostGIS Topology
Back to native format:
v.external.out -r
# do some processing in native format
Restore previous settings from "gisdb_topo.txt" file by
specifying
loadsettings option.
v.external.out loadsettings=gisdb_topo.txt
# ... and do some processing in PostGIS Topology
v.external,
v.in.ogr,
v.out.ogr,
v.out.postgis
See
also GRASS user wiki page for more examples.
Martin Landa, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
(development supported by Fondazione Edmund Mach and Comune di Trento, Italy)
SOURCE CODE
Available at:
v.external.out source code
(history)
Latest change: Friday Oct 25 16:16:09 2024 in commit: 5b94314a82de7e9c78fd6044659ea9d6c2323edb
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