[GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 39, Issue 14

[Martin Landa]

Michael,

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2009/7/5 Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>:
>> first step towards rasterlib in GRASS 7 has been done [1]. Let me
>> suggest the second one. The file layout should be consolidated.
>> Currently vectors are located in 'vector' directory, 3d rasters in
>> 'grid3' (or 'g3cell') - should be 'raster3d'.
>>
>> I would vote for similar approach for raster files in GRASS 7. So
>>
>> raster/name/cats
>> raster/name/cell
>> raster/name/cellhd
>> raster/name/cell_misc
>> raster/name/colr
>> raster/name/fcell
>> raster/name/hist
>> ...
>>
>> Any comments?
>
> I agree. I don't know what the down sides are beyond lack of backward
> compatibilty (always and issue, but GRASS 7 development is the time to do
> it). But this would be a much more manageable structure and offers the
> potential for easier raster portability.

the backward compatibility cannot play role here - otherwise we cannot
change anything till the end of GRASS;-) I think that for GRASS 7 we
should choose the same file layout for rasters (2d/3d) and vectors.
This moment is probably the right one.

Thanks, Martin

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Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa