Hello, IMHO the WPS (web processing service) approach to use GRASS GIS within QGIS might be a better solution? All the location, projection and mapset overhead would be avoided and the integration into QGIS would be more intuitive. Additionally using the WPS approach will also make Sextante, ArcGIS and other geo processing capabilities available in QGIS. Also cloud geo processing will be available using this approach. I would suggest to largely improve the existing WPS plugin from Horst Düster (and partially me) to make QGIS to one of the best WPS clients available.
Here an example of the capabilities of the current WPS QGIS - GRASS GIS 7 approach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnax9w1bCs As far as i know the grass libraries are not designed to be used in long running persistent applications, so there will always be problems and a large effort migrating new GRASS GIS versions in QGIS. A WPS client would be completely independent from changes in GRASS GIS API or modules and will work with many other WPS backends. Just my 2C Sören 2011/3/21 Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]>: > Hi all. > The GRASS plugin does not have a maintainer since long. We at Faunalia > have done some smaller fixes, and financed, together with others, some > more bugfixing, through[0]. > This situation is not ideal: without regular maintenance, bugs creep in, > and eventually major problems come out. Currently we have several > serious issues on vectors in Windows. It is therefore important that > someone fixes this, in order GRASS will remain fully usable from QGIS, > on all operating systems. > I'm therefore asking all the serious GRASS-QGIS users to step up and > give a hand, with either developer time or money. You are free not to do > it, but if you do it the future of this important tool will be bright > and reliable. > All the best. > -- > http://www.faunalia.it/pc > > [0]http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Bugs > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
