# GRASS Help System

database - A collection of data sets stored together and controlled by a specific schema. A consistent and specified set of procedures is used in adding data to a database and in changing or retrieving existing data from it. A GIS database includes data about the positions and the attributes associated with geographic features that have been coded as points, lines or areas.

In GRASS, the term database refers to the UNIX directory in which the user's GRASS data are stored on a computer. The variable $GISDBASE is also used to refer to this directory.

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Automatically created on: Wed Oct 12 14:08:42 2005