On 26 April 2018 at 17:31, Benjamin Ducke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In the case of GRASS, this is a more complicated matter. > GRASS uses a fully topological vector format and all > input data will go through rigorous topology testing > by default. The more intermediate steps, the higher > the risk that data will get crippled in the process. > Note that GRASS now has an alternative way of linking > to external data instead of importing it: > > https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/manuals/v.external.html > > So perhaps it would be a good idea for the QGIS GRASS > provider to offer v.external as an alternative to > v.in.ogr for piping QGIS vector layers into the GRASS > backend (however, read "NOTES" on the page cited above!).
This was already done in 3.0 - if you check Processing Options, Grass provider, there's a setting to use v.external instead of v.in.ogr. It's on by default. Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
