[GRASS-dev] v.out.ogr browse button for output

[Markus Metz]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> I noticed that students had hard time finding or defining the path to the file exported by v.out.ogr
> (in our case it was a kml file) because there is no browse button - is there a reason for the missing
> Browse for this command?

OGR access to vector data requires a data source name (dsn) and a
layer name. The data source could be a PostGIS database in which case
a browse button does not make sense. In other cases, e.g. kml or
shapefiles, the dsn can be a directory or file name, or both. This is
too much flexibility for an automatically generated gui and the reason
for the new interfaces for r.in.gdal and v.in.ogr.

You can also set the current working directory in the GUI with
Settings->GRASS working environment->Change working directory. This
affects only the GUI, not the shell.

Markus M

> r.out.gdal has such button and it was suggested but Helmut some time ago:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-July/051356.html
>
> Helena
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