topic_export(1)

🎀 topic_export 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the GRASS GIS User's Manual 💖 you've landed on the page for the topic called… export. yes. that one. the "get your stuff OUT of GRASS and into the world" page. it's giving main character energy, fr fr.

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✨ Topic: export ✨

so like, this is the whole roster 💅 every single tool that takes your maps, tables, rasters, vectors, whatever, and yeets them somewhere that isn't GRASS. no cap, here's the full lineup:

• d.out.file — saves whatever's showing on your active display monitor and turns it into a graphics file 💾
• d.to.rast — same active-display-monitor screenshot vibe, but it lands as a raster map instead
• db.out.ogr — your attribute tables? exported. into various formats. iconic.
• r.external.out — redirects raster output to a file by way of the GDAL library, instead of storing it in GRASS raster format
• r.out.ascii — raster map layer → GRASS ASCII text file 🦋
• r.out.bin — GRASS raster → binary array
• r.out.gdal — GRASS raster maps → GDAL supported formats (all of them, basically)
• r.out.gridatb — GRASS raster map → GRIDATB.FOR map file (TOPMODEL)
• r.out.mat — GRASS raster → binary MAT-File
• r.out.mpeg — a whole series of raster maps → an MPEG movie 🎬 ate
• r.out.png — export a GRASS raster map as a non-georeferenced PNG image
• r.out.pov — raster map layer → a height-field file for POV-Ray
• r.out.ppm — GRASS raster map → PPM image file
• r.out.ppm3 — takes 3 GRASS raster layers (R,G,B) and makes them one PPM image file 🌈
• r.out.vrml — raster map → Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
• r.out.vtk — raster maps → VTK-ASCII format
• r.out.xyz — raster map → a text file of x,y,z values, based on cell centers
• r.pack — exports a raster map as a GRASS GIS specific archive file 📦
• r3.out.ascii — 3D raster map layer → ASCII text file
• r3.out.bin — GRASS 3D raster map → binary array
• r3.out.netcdf — 3D raster map → netCDF file
• r3.out.v5d — GRASS 3D raster map → 3-dimensional Vis5D file
• r3.out.vtk — 3D raster maps → VTK-ASCII format
• t.rast.export — exports a space time raster dataset ⏳
• t.rast.out.vtk — space time raster dataset → VTK time series
• t.vect.export — a space time vector dataset → GRASS GIS specific archive file
• v.external.out — defines the vector output format
• v.out.ascii — vector map → GRASS ASCII vector representation
• v.out.dxf — vector map → DXF file format
• v.out.ogr — vector map layer → any of the supported OGR vector formats
• v.out.postgis — vector map layer → PostGIS feature table 🐘
• v.out.pov — GRASS x,y,z points → POV-Ray x,z,y format
• v.out.svg — vector map → SVG file
• v.out.vtk — vector map → VTK ASCII output
• v.pack — exports a vector map as a GRASS GIS specific archive file 📦

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See also the corresponding keyword export for additional references.

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