[GRASS-dev] Replacement of NVIZ

[Michael Barton]

Why do you think it is not maintainable? We are maintaining it now and it is
far better than equivalent packages in other GIS platforms (if they even
exist). There also are likely to be more people with python/wxPython
expertise than we now have with TclTk expertise, which bodes well for future
maintainability and enhancements.

We should be conservative about taking on **new** code responsibilities
unless we have the development team to manage them into the future. But with
the development team growing, and inclusion into OSGEO, I don't see any
reason to jettison existing GRASS functionality--especially a piece that is
so good and has been a key part of GRASS for so long. Many other programs
exist that do parts of what GRASS does (GDAL, MySQL, ParaView, GIMP,
QCAD)--and sometimes do it with much more sophistication. GRASS brings
needed functionality together in an integrated way to provide a rich and
complete GIS environment.

Michael


On 4/23/07 6:46 AM, "Paolo Cavallini" <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

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> I agree that integration is good, but I do not think NVIZ is
> maintainable. I think a good and smooth link to an external 3d viewer
> (call it Paraview or whatever). Why exactly this could not be a
> replacement for nviz?
> We cannot do everything within grass: the dev team is small compare to
> the code base, and externalizing functions is the only way to make real
> progress, in my view.
> All the best.
> pc
> 
> Michael Barton ha scritto:
>> So I hope that we can get NVIZ ported to wxPython and make it an even more
>> seamless part of the geospatial visualization tools for GRASS. Making
>> tighter connections between GRASS and other, external visualization tools is
>> also a worthy plan--similar to the integration between GRASS and R. But
>> IMHO, we should not abandon NVIZ or something like it.
> - --
> Paolo Cavallini
> http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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Arizona State University

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