[GRASS-dev] Maximum safe map name size?

[Hamish]

> Hamish wrote:
> > as you found, on top of that, grass 6 titles (cats+hist) are
> > going to be limited to RECORD_LEN chars. an update of the meta-
> > data backend remains a major TODO for grass 7.
Glynn:
> FWIW, I've re-written this in r42695.
> 
> The fields of "struct History" are now dynamically allocated, rather
> than fixed-size arrays, so RECORD_LEN and MAXEDLINES no longer exist. 
> 
> Also, set/get functions are provided, eliminating the need
> to access the structure fields directly.
> 
> Code which simply truncated strings to RECORD_LEN now stores the
> complete string. Code which breaks long strings into
> multiple lines has been preserved.

as always, bloody excellent.


does anyone know/is involved with an OSGeo-wide library/project to deal
with the EU's INSPIRE metadata needs etc? (I'd really rather not attempt
to maintain our own fork of such a thing)
 [e.g. something with GeoNetwork  http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork]


Hamish