[Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

[Paulo van Breugel]

On 04/02/2012 12:12 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> On 02/04/2012 12:10, Victor Olaya wrote:
>
>> The idea (at least, my original idea) was to let users with no GRASS
>> knowledge to use GRASS algorithms from a more common GIS interface. So
>> they do not have to worry about mapsets and things like that, and they
>> execute the algorithm just like they would do with any other one. The
>> mapset and location is created automatically each time the algorithm
>> is run, and all data imported into it. Then the results are exported
>> and loaded in the GIS.
> agreed, very useful - you just do not need to import rasters, thanks to r.external :)
>
> all the best.
Paolo, I might be misunderstand, but that would only apply if r.external 
allows the creation of a location on the fly. Or this could perhaps be 
done via another way, e.g., using the normal r.in.gdal to create the 
locaion, without actually importing the layer. No clue what would be the 
overhead of this (I don't know how r.in.gdal gets the information to 
determine the location parameters, does it need to read the whole raster 
first?). But I am sure Victor will find the best way to do this :-)


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