g.gui.datacatalog(1)

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version 8.4.2 · 10 versions
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✨ g.gui.datacatalog ✨

okay bestie, this is a page straight out of the GRASS GIS User's Manual 💖 it's called g.gui.datacatalog and honestly? it's giving main character energy for your maps.

🎀 NAME 🎀

g.gui.datacatalog — the tool for browsing, modifying and managing GRASS maps. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

🌸 KEYWORDS 🌸

general, GUI, map management

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

g.gui.datacatalog
g.gui.datacatalog --help
g.gui.datacatalog  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🌈 Flags

  • --help — prints the usage summary, so you know what's up 🫶
  • --verbose — verbose module output, aka it tells you everything 😭
  • --quiet — quiet module output, aka it tells you nothing, respectfully 🙈
  • --ui — force launching the GUI dialog. yes queen, pop that window open 👑

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so the Data Catalog is a wxGUI component for browsing, modifying and managing GRASS maps. lowkey iconic.

Data Catalog lets you do all of this, no cap:

  • browse GRASS projects and mapsets in the current GIS directory 🌈
  • browse GRASS 2D/3D raster and vector maps 🗺️
  • rename, copy, move and delete GRASS maps, including reprojection between different projects ✨
  • drag and drop maps for copying and moving, literally the most satisfying thing ever 💅
  • searching and filtering maps using regular expressions 🧚
  • display map in current project 👀
  • show metadata of maps 📋
heads up bestie: projects are called locations at some places and in old documentation. not a typo, just history being history 💀

Figure: Data Catalog integrated in wxGUI.

🔥 NOTES 🔥

okay so some operations — copying, renaming, deleting — are by default enabled only within the current mapset</> 😤 so if you're trying to touch stuff outside your current mapset, you need to press the Unlock button in the Data Catalog toolbar. periodt.

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

when you're renaming, copying or deleting maps outside of Data Catalog, you need to reload the current mapset or the entire database, because it is currently not synchronised. it's giving chaos, so just reload, bestie 🫶

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

  • wxGUI, wxGUI components
  • g.copy, g.rename, g.remove, g.list

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Anna Petrasova, NCSU GeoForAll Laboratory
  • Tereza Fiedlerova, OSGeoREL, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

absolute queens, both of them 💖

💻 SOURCE CODE 💻

Available at: wxGUI Data Catalog source code (history)

Accessed: Saturday Jan 17 05:42:35 2026

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this came to you from GRASS 8.4.2 (the GRASS Development Team's 2003-2025 era, GRASS GIS 8.4.2 Reference Manual, accessed Saturday Jan 17 05:42:35 2026) — slay, go browse some maps 💖✨🦋

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