[GRASS-dev] v.surf.bspline man page

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Tuesday, January 18, 2011, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> That's reassuring, thanks Markus.
> Incidentally, since HTML housekeeping is such a boring
> chore but so crucial: Do you guys think it would make
> sense to have a "man page improvement day", similar to
> a code sprint, but with the whole community dedicating
> perhaps a day to finding problems in man pages and fixing
> them?
> 
> I am not just talking about correcting errors, but also
> rephrasing things that are hard to understand or elaborating
> on aspects that aren't explained verbosely enough.
> 
> Ben

Excellent idea! I would participate.

Dylan

 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Benjamin Ducke
> > <benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk> wrote:
> > > The HTML manual page for v.surf.bspline
> > > says:
> > >
> > > "A raster output map ("raster=") of more than 2000x2000 (4 mill)
> > > cells is not allowed. If an output map would exceed this size,
> > > an error message is generated."
> > >
> > > But there is nothing in the source code which suggests such
> > > a limitation. I tried interpolating a 5000x4000 raster and it
> > > worked just fine.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something or has this limitation fallen?
> > >
> > Right, this limitation has been removed, the maximum number of cells
> > depends now on LFS and the amount of available system memory.
> > 
> > Additionally, one bug has been removed:
> > 
> > "At this time, sparse vector input can only be used with interpolation
> > from 3D vector z-coordinates"
> > 
> > is no longer true, z values are collected either from 3D points or
> > from the attribute table.
> > 
> > The manual has been updated correspondingly in all branches.
> > 
> > Markus M
> 
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