[GRASS5] s. -> v.

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 08:25:22PM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
> Hello Michael
> 
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
> [...]
> >Since GRASS doesn't have a krieging interpolator,
> 
> s.surf.krig?
> http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass/src/sites/s.surf.krig/
> http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/gdp/html_grass5/html/s.surf.krig.html
> 
> Looks substantial enough but I wonder what the problem with it is. Is it 
> just another module that was disabled and forgotten like s.kcv, m.in.ntf 
> or is there a more serious problem?

Some clues here:
 http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2000-September/011898.html
 http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2000-September/011895.html

AFAIK the update/rewrite wasn't finished.

 Have a look also here:
 http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=256
 "Helena wrote:
 > #256 s.surf.krig - kriging is much better served by linking with geostats
 > packages as you need lots of additional tools to make it really useful -
 > GSTATS and R-stats would be much better for that. Unless somebody wants to
 > undertake major geostatistics developments fully integrated with GRASS
 > (inclding s.sv and other tools) I suggest retiring it and rather work on
 > improvements and education for R-stats bridge and GSTATS link"


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