[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #82: new module: v.to.3d

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#82: new module: v.to.3d
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 Reporter:  hamish       |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
Component:  default      |     Version:  svn-trunk                
 Keywords:               |  
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 Hi,

 as discussed on the -dev list
   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/25394/

 there is need for a simple way of transforming 2D vectors to 3D vectors.

 v.transform will do it, so perhaps the module could be a wrapper function
 to that?

 it should have:

  * 2D points + [numeric attr column or value= command line option] -> 3D
 points
  * 2D lines -> 3D lines in a similar way (i.e. labeled contour lines ->
 3D)

  * a -r flag to reverse the process. If done in a shell script this might
 be as simple as v.out.ascii | v.in.ascii [without -z]


 'v.transform --script' will create the template, and then just a few lines
 for the wrapper. There is movement to start writing new scripts in Python
 instead of /bin/sh to aid future portability, but I think the script is
 simple enough that we could make an initial shell script version which
 could be considered "disposable with minimal loss of effort."

 [Python is problematic as it is not yet a mandatory dependency]

 To me it seems the important tasks are collecting the correct command line
 options needed and getting the module's options and flags out into the
 users' mind-space. Once that is in place we could rewrite the wrapper as a
 python script later without much work and without any user visible change.


 Hamish

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