On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Ramon Andinach <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd prefer "colormap", for the reason that you give. > > With "categorized" and "graduated" I think that they are clear enough, but > not what I would expect. If you were making a graph I was taught "discrete" > and "continuous" to describe these data types, and that is what I'd expect. > The problem is categorized. Categorized data is data that's been grouped into > subsets (bins). So even the "graduated" data becomes categorized. > (Take a set of numbers between 1 and 50 {1,2,11,13,22,24,33,35,44,46}, which > I treat as "graduated" data. I could then categorize them into 5 groups of > equal ranges {1,2}{11,13}{22,24}{33,35}{44,46} )
The "discrete" and "continuous" data types make some sense. Still, I have an issue with this division: in mathematics "continuous" and "discrete" terms have a different meaning: real numbers are considered continuous, whole numbers are considered discrete. But both real and whole numbers can be classified into ranges, even though only real numbers are really continuous :-) Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
