[GRASS-dev] what does zoom= do?

[Markus Neteler]

On Jan 26, 2008 10:29 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michael Barton wrote:
> > What does zoom= do in g.region?
> >
> > I tried a couple tests and it seemed to have no effect at all.
>
> say you have a mostly NULL map with some data in the middle.
> 'g.region zoom=rastermap' first does like 'g.region rast=' then shrinks
> in  on all sides until it hits some data.

Cool feature - didn't know that yet!
Let me suggest to re-word
     zoom   Raster map to zoom into

since this doesn't say anything. Maybe:
    zoom   Raster map to zoom into (zoom to data area)

OK, something better would be appreciated.

Markus