GRASS5.0: brief description of ASCII formats

This description of ASCII formats supported by GRASS5 is for quick reference only. For full up-to-date description see GRASS 5 Programmer's manual

Sites
```
#any comment, can be inserted anywhere
name|mysoils.site
desc|3D soils data for location A
time|15 Jan 1999
labels|east north elevation ID pH Corg color
form||||#%%@
333444.55|2543367.01|22.45|#1 %6.6 %20.123 @brown
333445.05|2543377.21|32.46|#2 %5.6 %10.043 @gray
```
for lat/long data
```
labels|longitude latitude ID elevation
75:33:55.34W|33:44:59.21N|#1 %225.2
```
Notes:
- sites data are stored in this ASCII format in GRASS database
- comment and header lines are optional
- elevation can be given as a 3rd dimension or an attribute
- read more about how to define time in GRASS: Programmer's Manual Chap. 23 Datetime library
- read more detailed description of sites format: GRASS 4.2(= 5.0) Site Record Format Specification

Vector

Example area data

Example ASCII vector file (store in dig_ascii/):

       ORGANIZATION:
       DIGIT DATE:   Oct 24 2001
       DIGIT NAME:   nds_gem
       MAP NAME:     nds_gem
       MAP DATE:
       MAP SCALE:    500000
       OTHER INFO:   /home/neteler/grassdata5/langeoog/PERMANENT/dig_cats
       ZONE:         0
       WEST EDGE:    3399965.343
       EAST EDGE:    3403360.343
       SOUTH EDGE:   5957127.30045067
       NORTH EDGE:   5960625.30045067
       MAP THRESH:   19.05
       VERTI:
       A  13
        5958812.48844435 3400828.84221011
        5958957.29887089 3400877.11235229
        5959021.65906046 3400930.7458436
        5959048.47580612 3400973.65263665
        5959069.92920264 3401032.64947709
        5959064.56585351 3401123.82641232
        5958994.84231481 3401188.1866019
        5958914.39207784 3401188.1866019
        5958823.21514261 3401107.73636493
        5958753.49160391 3401005.83273144
        5958753.49160391 3400941.47254186
        5958780.30834956 3400887.83905055
        5958812.48844435 3400828.84221011
       A  8
        5959010.9323622 3401338.36037757
        5959096.7459483 3401370.54047235
        5959091.38259917 3401450.99070932
        5958973.38891828 3401520.71424803
        5958882.21198305 3401467.08075671
        5958903.66537958 3401375.90382148
        5958941.2088235 3401332.99702844
        5959010.9323622 3401338.36037757

The associated dig_att file needs following format (store in dig_att/):

       A 3401180.463379 5959003.209139          1
       A 3401516.741397 5958966.635071          2

The associated dig_cats file needs following format:

       # 2 categories
 
 
       0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
       1:forest
       2:water

Example line data

ORGANIZATION: 
DIGIT DATE:   
DIGIT NAME:   
MAP NAME:     from raster map lidar99.t800
MAP DATE:     
MAP SCALE:    0
OTHER INFO:   
ZONE:         18
WEST EDGE:    442296
EAST EDGE:    443960
SOUTH EDGE:   3978824.85093895
NORTH EDGE:   3980319.16466812
MAP THRESH:   0
VERTI:
L  5
 3980318.16445813 442301.26497998
 3980318.08679477 442301      
 3980316.24075428 442299      
 3980316.16403814 442298.85299258
 3980315.46571843 442297      
L  264
 3980318.16445813 442777.02040119
 3980317.26230805 442779      
 3980316.16403814 442780.1796963

Notes:

this format is produced by v.out.ascii and can be read by v.in.ascii, vector data are stored as binary in GRASS database
header is mandatory

2D Raster
```
north: 3980319.16466812
south: 3978824.85093895
east: 443960
west: 442296
rows: 747
cols: 832
10.30957 10.318124 10.201462 9.9399 9.566847.............
```
Notes:
- this format is produced by r.out.ascii and can be read by r.in.ascii, raster data are stored as binary in GRASS database
- header is mandatory
- first row starts at NW (upper left corner) and the raster is written west to east, north to south.

3D Raster

Proj: 1
Zone: 1
North: 2.0000000000000
South: 0.5000000000000
East: 4.0000000000000
West: 3.0000000000000
Top: 6.0000000000000
Bottom: 5.0000000000000
nofRows: 30
nofCols: 20
nofDepths: 14
e-w resol: 0.05
n-s resol: 0.05
t-b resol: 0.071428571
TileDimensionX: 8
TileDimensionY: 8
TileDimensionZ: 8
CellType: double
useCompression: 1
useRle: 1
useLzw: 0
Precision: -1
nofHeaderBytes: 12
useXdr: 1
hasIndex: 1
Units: none
22.3 44.5 33.8

Notes:

this format is produced by r3.out.ascii and can be read by r3.in.ascii, raster data are stored as binary in GRASS database
header is mandatory
first row starts at NW (upper left corner) and the raster is written west to east, north to south, bottom to top.

3D Region definition DEFAULT_WIND3/WIND3
```
Proj: 99
Zone: 0
North: 5766600
South: 5763400
East: 3573200
West: 3570000
Top: 0
Bottom: -200
nofRows: 160
nofCols: 160
nofDepths: 20
e-w resol: 20
n-s resol: 20
t-b resol: 10
```
Notes:
- Note, this file is generated by g3.createwind and can be changed either by g3.region or g3.setregion
GRASS Development Team ($Date: 2003/04/03 10:21:56 $)