[GRASS-dev] v.edit map

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2009/7/9 Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
>> 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.

or to make 'output' parameter optional. I.e. if 'output' is not given
then the vector map is modified directly otherwise saved as 'output'.

Martin

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