[GRASS-dev] r.resamp.aggregate

[Maciej Sieczka]

Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> 
>> Glynn Clements wrote:
>>> Can we make a decision as to the official name of this module?
>>
>> Shorter? Ie. r.resamp.aggreg (following the "r.resamp.interp" pattern?)
> 
> I chose "interp" because it was one syllable of the word "interpolate"
> and was easy to pronounce and remember!

Not one syllable, but two, actually.

> "aggreg" is two and a half syllables

True. A bit hard to pronounce maybe, too.

> and not IMHO a very obvious abbreviation. I still like
> r.resamp.stats. The reasoning being that the the map is re-sampled based
> on statistical aggregation of cell values. I think it is more obvious what the
> functionality is: "stats" is obviously a more general term than
> "aggregate" and in general I wouldn't be for "dumbing down" but that
> just seems like an appropriate generalisation in the circumstances!
> I do think Glynn should just commit it with whatever he feels is the
> most appropriate name though. He's not usually wrong.

I like r.resamp.stats. And I don't mind r.resamp.aggregate really. Just
 thought it is a bit longish. (shrug)

Maciek