[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1432: wxGUI GDAL/OGR Importer: changing format doesn't affect list of layers

Martin Landa landa.martin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 18:19:36 EDT 2011


2011/8/31 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
> I notice in trunk that ESRI Shapefile has just been removed as
> the default output format. Why is that? It is the most common
> choice by far and is a pain to have to type.

usually you forget to define format when you don't want to write out
Shapefile (it happened thousand times when working with PostGIS). It
will just silently write Shapefile and that's the pain. The module is
not called v.out.shapefile, but v.out.ogr. Well, cosmetic issue
compared to others.

Martin

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