[GRASS-dev] on the fly grass location

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sun Nov 14 15:05:41 EST 2010


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> As it has been discussed earlier, having location generated (and destroyed)
>> on the fly would help a lot the casual qgis grass user to approach grass.
>> The idea is to run an analysis by loading (r.external, v.external, v.in.ogr)
>> data, generating a location from it, run, save the results as tif or shp,
>> and destroy the location at the end, all without users noticing it (but
>> explaining for future reuse).
>> The good news is that here at the hackfest we got a voulnteer willing to
>> help with the coding (preferably in Python). Welcome Peter Loewe!
>
> Great, Peter!
>
>> Anybody willing to help him with the first steps?
>
> Sure - note that all ingredients are already there including the
> "demolocation" which comes with any GRASS binary package.
> Maybe that's easier discussed over chat?

Forgot to mention this Wiki page
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Working_with_GRASS_without_starting_it_explicitly

Markus


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