topic_map_management(1grass)

🗺️ Topic: map management ✨

straight outta the GRASS User's Manual — this is the topic_map_management(1grass) glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, this is the map management corner of GRASS 🌈. it's where you handle map data base elements — copying them, listing them, renaming them, yeeting them, locking down your mapset, and herding a whole squad of space time datasets 🦋. every tool here is its own little main character, so let's do a vibe check on the whole roster 👑

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• g.access — controls access to the current mapset for other users on the system 🔒 (yes, it's giving bouncer at the club).
• g.copy — creates copies of maps and other elements 🫶 (dupe responsibly).
• g.dirseps — an internal GRASS utility for converting directory separator characters 🧚 (internal, so don't come for it unless you know what you're doing).
• g.filename — prints GRASS data base file names 📛
• g.findetc — searches for GRASS support files 🔍
• g.findfile — searches for GRASS data base files and sets variables for the shell 🐚
• g.list — lists available GRASS data base files of the data type you specify, and you can optionally throw a search pattern at it 📋
• g.remove — removes data base element files from your current mapset using the search pattern 🗑️ (careful, this one is not playing around 😭)
• g.rename — renames data base element files in your current mapset ✏️
• i.group — creates, edits, and lists groups of imagery data 🛰️
• i.target — targets an imagery group to a GRASS location and mapset 🎯
• r.compress — compresses and decompresses raster maps 🗜️
• r.null — manages NULL-values of a given raster map 🕳️
• r3.null — explicitly creates the 3D NULL-value bitmap file 🧊
• t.create — creates a space time dataset ⏳
• t.list — lists space time datasets and maps registered in the temporal database 📚
• t.rast.list — lists registered maps of a space time raster dataset 🌾
• t.rast3d.list — lists registered maps of a space time raster3d dataset 🧱
• t.register — assigns timestamps and registers raster, vector and raster3d maps in a space time dataset 🕰️
• t.remove — removes space time datasets from the temporal database 💀
• t.rename — renames a space time dataset 🏷️
• t.unregister — unregisters raster, vector and raster3d maps from the temporal database or from a specific space time dataset 🙈
• t.vect.list — lists registered maps of a space time vector dataset 🧭

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see also the corresponding keyword map management for additional references 🔗 — like, there's more where this came from, fr fr.

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and that's the whole topic, bestie 💅. this page is courtesy of the GRASS Development Team, © 2003-2026, from the GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual — version GRASS 8.5.0, and yes, we are absolutely still on topic_map_management(1grass) 🎀 go forth and manage those maps, you ate 👑💖