Hello Paul and Markus, at some point would it be useful to get an Import Wizard up and running? It would call the necessary r.in* or v.in* according to needed formats...
Michael and I worked on a wxWizard at some point, maybe it could be a good time to resurrect that work? Yann 2008/10/13 Paul Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Markus Neteler wrote: > > Any objections (the motivation is obvious)? I would also update >>>> >>> >>> Hi Markus, >>> Can you elaborate on the motivation? As it is I feel an obvious objection >>> is >>> that this implies there is no other way to import raster and vector data >>> than through GDAL and OGR respectively - but I count 8 r.in.*, 14 >>> r.out.*, 4 >>> v.in.* and 6 v.out.* modules in 7.x. So IMHO it is confusing. >>> >> >> Well, teaching GRASS over the year almost always brought up the >> newcomer question: "Where [censored] is the import module?". >> r.in.gdal or v.in.ogr is *not* obvious at all. >> > > Thanks - surprisingly it wasn't actually obvious to me that the motive was > newbie confusion! And yes I agree, good point - I also vaguely remember when > starting GRASS being confused as to when r.in.gdal might be useful. And > taken alone, r.import and r.export are very good names, easy to remember and > also quick to type. I guess it's just the inconsistency that will then exist > with r.in.* and r.out.* that I'm concerned about. > > If r.in.gdal was renamed to something like r.in.multi or r.in.various that > would be one way of preserving the consistency. Renaming r.in.* to > r.import.* and r.out.* to r.export.* at the same time as renaming r.in.gdal > to r.import would be another possiblity for preserving consistency. Neither > of those are ideal; I'm not seriously suggesting either of them. > > Is the idea of the proposal then to make new users see r.import as the > standard import tool they should try first, and that r.in.* are legacy > modules to look at if they have difficulty or special requirements? If so, I > guess I'm generally in favour of it after all. > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- Yann Chemin International Rice Research Institute Office: http://www.irri.org/gis Perso: http://www.freewebs.com/ychemin YiKingDo: http://yikingdo.unblog.fr/
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