[GRASS5] v.what and r.what

[twiens]

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From: Maciek Sieczka <werchowyna at epf.pl>
To: twiens at interbaun.com
Cc: grass5 <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
Subject: Re: [GRASS5] v.what and r.what
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:57:36 +0100

> On śro, 2006-01-18 at 07:55 -0700, twiens wrote:
> 
> <> snip
> 
> > Also the r.what output is
> > column like separated by vertical bars, where v.what has
> > each attribute on its on line with the field name and
> > its value. 
> 
> Could you post an example?

Sorry I don't have anything easily availale (away from my
home computer right now). You have r.what on your system
right now. For understanding v.what, run d.what.vect with
the -t option for terse.

> > I intend to add an option to r.what to provide the same
> > kind of output as v.what, but since it is desirable to
> > have the commands similar should I modify v.what to take
> > a coordinate pair or modify r.what to take coordinate
> > input as two parameters. Michael prefers the separate
> > parameters and I prefer it to,
> 
> Why would separate parameters be better?
> 

Not better, just a matter of preference. To me it seems
cleaner, but I don't want to change anything that is going
to break things.

T