[GRASS-dev] small interface inconsistency in r.to.vect in GRASS 7

[Anna Petrášová]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>
wrote:

> In r.to.vect, this argument ONLY refers to the output vector feature.
> There are not any different feature types for the 2D raster maps that are
> input to this module. I assume that while the nature of the raster map
> affects the vector feature type to some extent, this argument can force it
> to output a particular feature type when there is the potential for
> multiple feature type output.
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> I suppose simply “feature type” is OK. But it is the output vector map
> that is being referred to in any case and “input” feature type is
> misleading IMHO.
>

Probably revert http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/59324? Or create
separate options G_OPT_V_TYPE_INPUT, G_OPT_V_TYPE_OUTPUT?

Anna


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> On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>
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> >> I just ran into this last night.
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> >> The description for the “type” argument for r.to.vect calls it “Input
> >> feature type”, but actually it should be “Output feature type”.
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> > I'm not sure. The raster input defines also the output to some extent.
> > In G6 it was simply called "Feature type", perhaps we should restore
> > that description?
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> > Markus
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