On Jan 21, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2015 6:56 PM, "Vaclav Petras" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The "project" has been introduced in the past to de-confuse user > > > coming from "other" GIS. > > > "Location" alone is not quite clear I fear. > > > > I see the motivation but random rename of one thing at one place is just > > adding to confusion. If we need explanation, then we need something like > > explanation in some less prominent color, similarly to what is in GUI > > elsewhere (see attachment). Broad rename is out of question I guess. > > > > Project is very ambiguous, it is location, mapset or GUI workspace? For me > > project is usually mapset, sometimes in combination with GUI workspace and > > this how I explain that to people. > > In my opinion we should not have the location selection dialog at all. > Revolution! > > We should start GRASS right away in latlong like most GIS in the world. > > Then let the user open the dialog to change projection if desired from inside. > > This would avoid a lot of questions right away.
I agree, Helena > > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > 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
