[GRASS5] Recommended tweak for 5.1

[Mike Thomas]

> >   My "intuition" and, perhaps, that of many new GRASS users, is the file
> > will be sought in the pwd if it's not important enough to mention in the
> > docs.

 Furthermore, one of the major issues in GIS is the question - "How did you
get this information and how accurate is it?"

 So I believe that in the interests of auditable metadata and reproduction
of
derived results, raw input data such as scanned images etc should be
associated with a derived mapset.

 Perhaps we need a new directory called "rawinputdata".

 As a further step, whenever any program takes input from that directory, it
should write into an object specific text file, names of derived maps and a
date/timestamp.  For example, you might have a scanned image "mapscan1.png",
which might have an associated metadata audit file called
"mapscan1.png.audit" containing entries like:

 v.digit 20010328-13.59.02 "Mike Thomas" MIKE/CELL/contours

 Cheers

 Mike Thomas



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