[GRASS-dev] GRASS6.4.3svn d.rast -o, d.vect -c, Browse for v.out.ogr

[Moritz Lennert]

On 10/09/12 11:42, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> On 10/09/12 09:17, Anna Kratochvílová wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Helena Mitasova<hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>>> Also, this is the first year that I haven't seen many complaints
>>> about import/export of raster and vector data,
>>> so that is a great improvement too.
>>> The only comment I have seen so far was lack of Browse button when
>>> selecting the directory for v.out.ogr output,
>>> I am wondering whether it is intentional due to some technical issues
>>> or just an oversight,
>>> given that r.out.gdal has such option.
>>
>> I don't know, the gui respects that the dsn option is string and not
>> file. There is probably some difference but someone would know this
>> better.

To complete:

> ISTR that the issue is that ogr output can either be file or directory
> depending on the chosen format.

Actually it can be even be more, such as database connections.

> I don't think gdal output can be directories, or ?

Maybe not directories, but output to databases will be an issue once the 
PostGIS Raster driver in GDAL supports writing...

Moritz