On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:25 +0100, "Peter Löwe" wrote: > > Betreff: Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS Location from scratch: Solved > > Peter, just out of curiosity: what's the *real* purpose of having this way > > to > > create a location? Kind regards, Nikos > > 2 1/2 reasons:
> 1) It builds character => 1 1/2) It's good for you (just like compiling GRASS > from the sources!) > 2) This approach allows to embed GRASS-driven computation in other > applications: All GRASS ressources are only provided during the > (outer) scripts execution. I tried to minimize on "carry-on luggage" > for this task - there is no more to need to drag a tarzipped "primary" > location along. Real boiled users might even go so far to wget & > build GRASS from the sources before applying it in such a fashion :-) > Peter Indeed, good reasons. +1 for reason #1 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
