[GRASS-dev] grass location creation

[Jachym Cepicky]

I have the QGIS version here ;-)

g.region -s would be great...

however - should it work from PERMANENT mapset only, or from any other
mapset too?

jachym

2007/3/7, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>:
> 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
>


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