[GRASS-dev] v.edit map

[Moritz Lennert]

On 09/07/09 11:30, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> should be 'map' in v.edit (for GRASS7) replaced by 'input/output'?
> When options are specified incorrectly or the module crashes, vector
> is not backuped, data are lost. The input/output paramaters would be
> probably better for this module.

Not too sure about this: this would mean that you create an intermediate 
map for every small edit. Why not create a flag for allowing the 
creation of a backup copy of the original map (which could be the 
default, so flag would then disable creation of backup map) ? Thus you 
get the security of being able to find the last version of the map 
before v.edit, without populating your mapset with a large number of 
intermediate maps.

Moritz