v.support(1grass)

💖 v.support — the GRASS User's Manual glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to v.support, straight outta the GRASS User's Manual. it's a lil unix manual page, it's giving utility, it's giving metadata, and we're about to make it make sense. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

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

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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 the comment instead of appending it. no stacking, no layering, we're swapping it out. 🔄
• -h — replace the command line instead of appending it. same energy, different field. 💫
• --help — print usage summary. she's always down to explain herself. 😌
• --verbose — verbose module output. talkative mode activated 🗣️
• --quiet — quiet module output. shhh era 🤫
• --ui — force launching GUI dialog. sometimes you just want buttons. 🖱️

🔧 Parameters 🔧

• map=name [required] — name of vector map. or, plot twist, the data source for direct OGR access. 👑
• organization=phrase — organization where vector map was created. who's your people, bestie? 🏢
• date=datestring — date of vector map digitization (e.g., "15 Mar 2007"). 📅
• person=phrase — person who created vector map. give credit where credit is due 🌟
• 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). this one's for the script girlies 💻

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, what is she actually doing? v.support is used to set/update vector map metadata. GRASS typically generates these metadata entries automatically — iconic of her, no notes — but v.support lets users manually edit them when necessary. basically: when the auto-pilot isn't giving what it needs to give, you step in. 💅✨

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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

look at her go. scale set, organization set, then v.info for the little reveal. main character behavior fr fr 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• v.build
• v.info

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Markus Neteler, Trento. thank you for your service, king 🫡

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📦 SOURCE CODE 📦

Available at: v.support source code (history)

Latest change: Friday Aug 08 09:39:19 2025 in commit: ed72c71d8580e872cd6fd345c84a15c324764465

Main index | Vector index | Topics index | Keywords index | Graphical index | Full index

© 2003-2026 GRASS Development Team, GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was v.support(1grass) from the GRASS 8.5.0 manual — no cap, that's the version, that's the manual name, and she ate. 🦋✨💖 periodt. 🫶