[GRASS-dev] Two kind questions...

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 27 11:44:54 EDT 2006


Damiano Triglione wrote:
> >>>> 1. I am planning to develop a Grass module that can accept (as
> >input >>> files) both vector or raster data. What prefix should I
> >choose for >>> the name? v. or r. or vr. or what?
> >>>
> >>> What is the output format?  That is how I decide.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, also the output format can be either raster or
> >vector! > What should I do, then?
> >
> > m.* !
> With m standing for "multiple"? Are there already modules with this
> prefix?

"miscellaneous". This was used more in GRASS 5, in GRASS 6 we only have
m.cogo and m.proj. Also there is g.* ("general"), but this is used more
for GIS admin tools; m.* is used for misc modules.



Hamish




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