import all files within a directory

[timmie]

This was discussed for shapefile vectors at: ​http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user

• I cannot just point the program to a directory of shapefiles and tell it import all. QGIS, gvSIG and ArcGIS can do this.

We could easily add v.in.ogr.all or v.external.all, I suppose two or three lines of shell script :) Could be stored in the Addons wiki.

This chould be enabled for vector and raster files. Examples:

• Import all landcover vector files from a folder

• Import all SRTM ASC/TIFF files from a folder

a nice option would be if one could run ogr2ogr/v.patch or gdal_merge/r.patch while importing to generate a mosaik of all the tiles within the folder with the same step.

This should also be implemented for the GUI.

[neteler]

An option may be to implement wildcard support in r.in.gdal|v.in.ogr. Possibly a GDAL/OGR function could be called to merge before handing the data block over to GRASS (within the modules).

Markus

[glynn]

Replying to neteler:

An option may be to implement wildcard support in r.in.gdal|v.in.ogr.

It doesn't make any sense to implement this within the module.

If you are going to run the entire top-level of a module in a loop, you're better off just running the module itself in a loop.

[rashadkm]

Its not that hard. Adding a small python script could close this enhancement

[martinl]

Possible from the GUI [1]. For advanced user easy to write a script for that or to use Graphical Modeler. Closing this ticket.

(1) ​http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:WxGUI_vector_bulk_import2.png