[GRASS-dev] terminology issues in grass7

[Wolf Bergenheim]

On 07.08.2008 20:22, Martin Landa wrote:

> 
> GRASS is basically layer-based GIS, in grass6 we call layers as maps,
> e.g. raster map. I would suggest to use in grass7 'layer' instead
> 
> * raster layer
> * 3d raster layer
> * vector layer
> 
> 'Map' could be used for composition of layers. And to rename all the
> arguments ('map' -> 'layer').
> 
> 'Layer' is currently used for vectors. Original term 'field number'
> seems to me as a better choice. It would mean at the end to rename
> also all 'layer' parameters to 'field'.
> 

Yes, that would conform more with the terminology of most other GIS:es 
out there. Especially the vector layer is very confusing for people who 
switch to GRASS. The renaming the layer parameters might need a lot of 
manual work, or maybe we can device a script to do it.

--Wolf

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