[GRASS5] bug reports for GRASS 5.7

[Michael Barton]

That's great. This is a very useful boost to GRASS 5.7. Thanks very 
much for your efforts.

Michael

On Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at 07:18  AM, Radim Blazek wrote:

> On Monday 05 April 2004 18:01, Michael Barton wrote:
>>>> **********************************
>>>> s.in.ascii
>>>> Actually imports ascii files to vector points (not "sites"). Also, 
>>>> it
>>>> ignores any values after the xy(z) dimensions. That is, no 
>>>> attributes
>>>> imported. This is not a bug per se, but it seems that a way to input
>>>> an
>>>> ascii file with xyz dimensions, plus attributes is a good thing to
>>>> have. The name should be changed perhaps. (v.points.in.ascii?)
>>>
>>> s.in/out.ascii modules are there only for tests of sites library 
>>> which
>>> in fact
>>> reads/writes vectors. Both s.in/out.ascii will be removed once all
>>> modules
>>> using sites are rewritten to vectors.
>>>
>>> I agree that a module which can import ascii points is useful.
>>> v.in.ascii output= can import x|y[|z]|cat from stdin.
>>> We can add attributes, but tell me how to define column names and
>>> types.
>>> It could be the part of SQL statement for create table?
>>
>> Just put them in GRASS 5.7 native dbf format. The original s.in.ascii
>> parser could identify integers (cat), floating point numbers
>> (dimensions and fp attributes), and strings (or at least it is 
>> supposed
>> to). Why not do a simple parse into integer, fp numbers, and strings.
>> There could be a checkbox (flag) to ask the user if the first line of
>> the file represents column names. If unchecked, the column names are
>> just called var1, var2,... (or more sophicated, int1, int2...fp1,
>> fp2,...strng1, strng2...).
>>
>> As with the original s.in.ascii, dates will end up as strings. 
>> However,
>> one can work with the table after the fact once it is in. Of course, 
>> it
>> could be more clever, do an initial parsing and ask the user to 
>> specify
>> field types, but I don't know if that is worth the trouble (it 
>> requires
>> an interactive interface of course).
>
> I have extended v.in.ascii. Now it imports also points' attributes.
> Column names and types may be specified by 'columns' option, otherwise
> default names are used. It is also possible to specify x,y,z,cat 
> columns.
>
> Radim
>
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