On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Finally, the LOCATION that is provided with WinGRASS is called > NORTH_CAROLINA > > which is different from nc_spm_08 for GRASS6 and nc_spm_08_grass7 for > GRASS7. > > You mean in the installer? > > > This is not a huge issue but users who may already have NORTH_CAROLINA > from previous installs > > and skip downloading it for WinGRASS7 may be surprised that the vector > data don't work. > > Should the name of this location be changed (preferably to > nc_spm_08_grass7) to indicate > > that this is a different data set in terms of vector data format? > > I don't see that on > http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/binary/mswindows/native/#Sample_Data > > Please let me/us know where to fix that issue. > It's the installer: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl#L1034 Here is what is used for NC and Spearfish: label file fancy name tared dir name created location name North Carolina (Wake County) Data Set nc_spm_08_grass7.tar.gz North Carolina (Wake County) nc_spm_08_grass7 North_Carolina South Dakota (Spearfish County) Data Set spearfish_grass60data-0.3.tar.gz South Dakota (Spearfish County) spearfish60 Spearfish60 The problem is that what is in installer does not fit with what is online, so it is hard to create instructions for multiple platforms since the name of location will be different if you download file using installer on MS Windows and if you download manually on any platform. And then we are also referring to this sample location in manuals in some way. I recently stepped into this issue too when writing documentation for testing framework.
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