[GRASS translations] What's a project in GRASS?

Roberto Antolin roberto at geomatica.como.polimi.it
Fri Jan 19 05:30:47 EST 2007


Hi everybody again,

>From my point of view "location" and "mapset" are proper names for sth. 
>(area, projection definition,group of mapsets etc.) as Glynn described below.
>That's maybe the problem and makes it impossible to simply translate it. 
>  
>
I just talk about it in my last post :)

>Maybe a solution would be to keep the english terms (location and mapset)
>as proper names and add a paragraph in documents, where you try to define
>exactly in your language what a location and a mapset is. This could be
>translated then.
>  
>
This could be a solution, yes.

> 
>BTW: It might be useful to find an agreement on how to use
>location and mapset in documents, thinking that almost every tutorial and its
>translation try to describe locations and mapsets in a different way again.
>
>just another idea... :-)
>  
>
Exactly! That's why I asked for the closer "definition" of 'location'. I 
think this should be standardized.

>regards,
> Otto
>
Roberto.


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