On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Markus Metz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Helena Mitasova <[email protected]> wrote: >> I noticed that students had hard time finding or defining the path to the >> file exported by v.out.ogr >> (in our case it was a kml file) because there is no browse button - is there >> a reason for the missing >> Browse for this command? > > OGR access to vector data requires a data source name (dsn) and a > layer name. The data source could be a PostGIS database in which case > a browse button does not make sense. In other cases, e.g. kml or > shapefiles, the dsn can be a directory or file name, or both. This is > too much flexibility for an automatically generated gui and the reason > for the new interfaces for r.in.gdal and v.in.ogr. > > You can also set the current working directory in the GUI with > Settings->GRASS working environment->Change working directory. This > affects only the GUI, not the shell.
this is actually what I was looking for, I could not find it in GRASS6.4.3 but I see that it is in GRASS7. It could resolve several issues for Windows users. thanks a lot, Helena > > Markus M > >> r.out.gdal has such button and it was suggested but Helmut some time ago: >> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-July/051356.html >> >> Helena >> _______________________________________________ >> grass-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
