[gdal-dev] gdal_grid: taking a value from feature attribute

[Andrey Kiselev]

Frank,

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:03:05PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> If you are willing to do a bit of extra work I would suggest that the
> argument to -a be treated as an attribute name, but if it is not found
> *and* matches an algorithm name it be used as the algorithm with a
> warning so folks get used to use the new algorithm flag.

That is what I am calling overintelligence!

> Generally speaking I am loath to change commandline arguments because
> it breaks scripts.  With gdal_grid you at least have the situation
> that the program is very new, so it will likely not be "deeply baked"
> into many scripted systems yet.

Yes, that is why I am thinking it is not too harmful.

Best regards,
Andrey

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