[GRASS5] a set of wishes for GRASS 5.7

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:38:05AM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> You guys have done a FANTASTIC job, and I am not complaining about this 
> at all. You can only do so much. However, it is still difficult to 
> manage attribute data from within GRASS. It seems that the main focus 
> so far has been getting data out in diverse ways and using gdal and ogr 
> to get data from elsewhere in. Personnally, I agree that these have 
> priority. But, what I do requires a fair amount of data creation--which 
> is why I've followed the improvements to v.digit with much interest. 
> This is also the source of my wish for better attribute data 
> entry/editing tools. AFAICT, db.select is a query tool. db.execute can 
> of course issue sql update queries. However, this is different from a 
> basic data editor. Answering Radim's response at the same time, 
> OpenOffice for Mac is still at the 1.0 stage and does not include dbf 
> support. Even if it did, this is a lot of program to install, just to 
> edit dbf files. I have Excel and can use that, of course. It would 
> still be nice to work within GRASS as was possible previously (albeit 
> in a somewhat clunky way). My hope was to inspire another programmer to 
> take up this task. A search on Sourceforge suggests that the tools are 
> there to do some kind of simple editor.

Michael,

ideas are not the problem. We are in the need to have someone looking
into this (a *new, additional* GRASS 5.7 programmer). But I think
that I have posted this message already too often.
The question is: how to raise interest in GRASS 5.7 programming?

I can understand your problems, but this must be solved by someone else.

> I haven't tried to compile QGIS to see if it runs on my Mac yet, so it 
> is nice to know that it has an editor. As Radim describes it, this 
> should do the trick. More complex things could be done with db.execute.
> 
> Michael

Best,

 Markus