#323: Consistency in adjectives used for GRASS' "geographic region" --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: nikos | Owner: [email protected] Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0 Component: Docs | Version: unspecified Resolution: | Keywords: Platform: All | Cpu: Unspecified --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Comment (by nikos):
Replying to [comment:1 hamish]: > ...but we can focus on explaining well in the documentation about what we mean by each version and then being consistent with it. I would like to see as less as possible different terms and consistency along the documentation. > wrt this ticket, the g.region module is concerned with the mapset's WINDow file. This is the current working region & resolution settings which processing modules will use. This long predates any GUI version. > > For non-GUI use only this region matters. > > > "Computational region" is used by the GUI to distinguish the above region from the display/rendering region in the map display window. > Perhaps the GUI should not use the term "region" at all unless it is referring to the computational one? Perhaps it should talk about "zoom" instead? I am not sure what would be best. However, I want to emphasize that "region", being one of the most important elements of GRASS, is a bit difficult to understand in the beginning. It's all about clear and consistent terms/descriptions (after all, isn't it?). -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/323#comment:2> GRASS GIS <http://grass.osgeo.org>
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