[GRASS5] raster map file format

[Michael Barton]

FWIW, I support moving to this kind of organization. Although painful in the
short run, it will make life much easier once implemented.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402

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> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:32:23 +1300
> To: grass5 <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: [GRASS5] raster map file format
> 
> Any thoughts on finally rearranging the raster map storage format soon
> after 6.2 is released? (into $MAPSET/raster/$MAPNAME/cell etc)
> This will break a lot of modules but it needs to happen some time..
> 
> Other queued raster format updates could be done at the same time.
>  - majorly rewrite the meta-data setup (see previous email)
>  - Put LZW compression back in?
>  - Start from scratch using netCDF, XML, or some other newfangled system?
>     (Glynn, Frank, Andrea?, et al: How horrible or apt is GRASS's raster
>      format anyway? for a format accessed row by row, is it fairly
> nice?)
> 
> This needs someone to do it too of course .. :) as well as necessitate
> bumping us up to GRASS 7.0, FWTIW.
> 
> But if we decide to do it, we can break it soon after a release and
> force everyone to fix things as they want their pet module back ;)
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> 
> Hamish
>