[GRASS-dev] terminology issues in grass7

[Maciej Sieczka]

Markus GRASS pisze:
> Maciej Sieczka wrote:

>> GRASS vector layers most of the time have common geometry or 
>> "subject", OGR layers not necessarily. E.g. shapefiles in a 
>> directory don't need to have anything in common.

> Same for GRASS vector layers, as long as it's in the same projection 
> and topology does not interfere. Technically speaking, even two 
> polygons in the same shapefile have nothing in common because there 
> is no topology and they can not relate to the same entry in an 
> attribute table.

>> They are just stored in the same place.

> You could call that messy data management if data that have nothing 
> in common are stored in the same place, no offence;-) Just because 
> it's technically possible doesn't mean that it makes sense, and GRASS
>  is discouraging this although it is to a degree possible. Usually, 
> when I get a directory with shapefiles, they are indeed related to 
> each other, and if possible I import all of them into one vector as 
> different layers.

Yeah well I guess I said all I wanted to. I bet everybody's going to be
glad if I don't interfere anymore :).

Bye!
Maciek

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