[GRASS5] [bug #1369] (grass) r.los man page doesn't give a hint how to make the 'pattern map'

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:59:38AM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
[...]
> Try using r.cva (cumulative viewshed analysis) instead of r.los
> I just found it at
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnmar/GIS/r.cva.html
> There is a lot of information and there have been research papers
> published about it as well.
> It is based on r.los and has so much more functionality and works better.
[...]
> It seems really useful and would only take a bit of work to update it
> properly to GRASS5.0 (although it's perfectly usable as it is, with some
> care), but maybe there's a reason why it isn't included in the current
> GRASS distribution?

... we need a person who feels responsible for that :-)
A sort of "GRASS addon and integration manager".

Markus