[GRASS5] Re: notation standardisation

[Radim Blazek]

> > NOTE: I'd like to get some kind of simple attribute database implemented
> > in GRASS, but so far I haven't found anything that we could just plug in
> > with a few tweaks.  The closest might be the Xbase library, but it's C++
> > and I don't know how well Xbase files might support efforts at
> > localization in the future.  Anyway, I bring this up, because
> > identifying attributes by "type" and "index" is really cumbersome.
> To have direct support would be very useful (instead of fiddling with
> external databases). Xbase might be a good suggestion!

How do you want to use such database. My suggestion is to write
new driver for dbmi so that we would have one interface and
could switch to other RDBMS by selecting some other driver.
 
> Concerning the "vocabulary":
> Similar confusion is there with vector data:
> My proposal:
> category number  -> index
> category label   -> attribute

We use 'category number' for distinguishing more caterories on
one element and 'category' for what you call 'index' (id,key) in new vect
library (for grass51). Code is already written with these names.
('Category' is still only link to external database.)

Radim

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