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

[Martin Landa]

2011/9/1 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
> 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.

similarly, default format (in this case GTiff) should not defined for
r.out.gdal in G7.

Martin

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