[GRASS-dev] t*. modules

[Margherita Di Leo]

Ciao,

2012/3/29 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> 2011/10/20 Sören Gebbert <soerengebbert at googlemail.com>:
> > with the temporal extension i introduce new datatypes to grass7:
> >
> > * space time raster  (tr.*) datasets
> > * space time vector  (tv.*) datasets
> > * space time raster3d  (tr3.*) datasets
> > and in the future
> > * space time dataset collections (?)
> >
> > The purpose of the t.* modules is to create, remove, list, support new
> > datatypes and check the temporal topology. Modules with prefix t.*
> > support identical functionalities for all new datatypes.  In the long
> > term the list and remove functionality can be integrated into the
> > general modules, but not support and topology.
> >
> > So i would like to keep t.*, tr.*, tv.* and tr3.* as prefix to simply
> > identify the new datatypes, extending the common r.*, v.* and r3.*
> > prefixes with a "t".
>
> I would like to open the discussion about this topic again, before
> tgis extension will be announced and users will start to use it. I
> would suggest to use only *one* prefix (`t.`) for TGIS. To extend
> current list of prefixes (r., v., etc) with so many new prefixes which
> are related to the one topic (in this case temporal GIS) is not good
> idea I think. Moreover it will make user manual less readable [1] -
> see t.*, tr.* and so on. I would propose rename eg `tr.` to `t.rast.`,
> and so on.
>

What about r.t. and v.t. ? It recalls what it's already done with db, like
v.db.
My 2 cents

madi

>
> Martin
>
> [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/html70_user/full_index.html
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