[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-CVS] michael: grass6/lib/initgis_set.t cl, 1.24, 1.25

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 19 06:31:05 EDT 2006


Maciej Sieczka wrote: 
> I would like to comment a little on this. "Location" seems a very sane
> term to me, I wouldn't like to see it replaced. Maybe it is different
> for English native speakers, but for my Polish fellow Grass users
> learning what a location is, and using that term, was never a problem.
> Also, "Project" could lead to confusing "reproject data from one
> project to another" instead of "reproject data from one location to
> another".


database has several meainings, location has several meanings, project
has several meanings.. layer has several meanings..  region has several
meanings..  yikes.

database and layer are the nasty ones as they have multiple meanings
within the software.



Hamish




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