[GRASS-dev] terminology issues in grass7

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2008/8/8 Wolf Bergenheim <wolf+grass at bergenheim.net>:
>> 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.

it would be enough to rename keys in G_define_standard_option() in
parser.c and afterwards fix all the modules which don't use
standardized parameters...

Martin

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