[GRASS-dev] grass location creation

[Hamish]

Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> according to [1] I started to work on GRASS location Wizard. Since the
> topic is rather complex, I would like to share some ideas with you,
> before I go on it.
> 
> I tryed to prepare sort of diagram with the wizard screens and how
> they could be organized [3] [4]. General idea is, that we offer to the
> user graphical version of standard grass location-creation process. It
> should be possible to define default bounding box coordinates based on
> list of states or georeferenced file. Thi diagram is not as
> transparent as I would like, sorry for this.
> 
> If anybody would have some clear picture about how the wizard should
> be organized, please share your idea via mailing list or wiki page
> [1].
> 
> Jachym
> 
> [1] http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_Location_Wizard
> [2] http://les-ejk.cz/tmp/grassstartup.png
> [3] http://les-ejk.cz/tmp/wizard.png
> [4] http://les-ejk.cz/tmp/wizard.dia


you might look at Radim's GRASS location/mapset creation wizard for QGIS
for inspiration,
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/9049

The screenshots listed there are no longer available (or at archive.org),
but maybe you can find them somewhere else, or just try it in GIS 0.8?

I think a big missing piece is (still) a non-interactive "save as
default region" option for g.region. Currently there is no tool to do
that outside of  lib/init/set_data.c + lib/edit/edit_cellhd.c


Hamish