v.support(1)

💖 v.support(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the GRASS GIS User's Manual ✨ and specifically to v.support, the little tool that updates your vector map's metadata. yes, the vibes of a map are stored in text files and yes, you can edit them by hand. slay.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

v.support — updates vector map metadata. that's it, that's the whole job 💅

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🎀 KEYWORDS 🎀

vector, metadata

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

v.support
v.support --help
v.support [-rh] map=name  [organization=phrase]   [date=datestring]
[person=phrase]   [map_name=phrase]   [map_date=datestring]
[scale=integer]   [zone=integer]   [threshold=float]   [comment=phrase]
[cmdhist=command]   [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🚩 Flags

• -r — Replace comment instead of appending it. so like, throw the old one away, no nostalgia, no leftovers 🗑️
• -h — Replace command line instead of appending it. same energy, but for the command line entry.
• --help — Print usage summary 🫶
• --verbose — Verbose module output (give me ALL the details)
• --quiet — Quiet module output (shhh 🤫)
• --ui — Force launching GUI dialog

🧚 Parameters

• map=name — [required] Name of vector map. Or data source for direct OGR access. bestie this one is not optional, you gotta tell it which map 💖
• organization=phrase — Organization where vector map was created
• date=datestring — Date of vector map digitization (e.g., "15 Mar 2007")
• person=phrase — Person who created vector map (give yourself credit, main character energy 👑)
• map_name=phrase — Vector map title
• map_date=datestring — Date when the source map was originally produced
• scale=integer — Vector map scale number (e.g., 24000)
• zone=integer — Vector map projection zone
• threshold=float — Vector map digitizing threshold number (e.g., 0.5)
• comment=phrase — Text to append to the comment line of the map's metadata file
• cmdhist=command — Command line to store into vector map history file (used for vector scripts)

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so v.support is the girl whose entire job is setting and updating vector map metadata. GRASS GIS usually generates all those metadata entries automatically for you, no cap — but sometimes you just gotta go in there and edit them yourself by hand. and that's when v.support shows up, glowing, ready 🦋

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

# update scale to 1:24000
v.support myvectmap scale=24000
# update organization
v.support myvectmap organization="OSGeo labs"
v.info myvectmap

see how she ate that? set the scale, set the org, then v.info to vibe check the result ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

v.build, v.info

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Markus Neteler, Trento

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🍓 SOURCE CODE 🍓

Available at: v.support source code (history)

Accessed: Saturday Jan 17 05:41:30 2026

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okay that's the whole page, you're literally a metadata editing icon now 💅✨

so the tea: this is GRASS GIS 8.4.2 (the GRASS 8.4.2 Reference Manual, fr fr), that access timestamp is Saturday Jan 17 05:41:30 2026, and the copyright situation is © 2003-2025 GRASS Development Team — love that for them 🫶🌷 bye bestie, go update some metadata 💖