[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

[Carlos Grohmann]

That was an interesting discussion, I'm sorry I missed it (should pay more
attention...)

I think that modules names should be descriptive. When I started learning
GRASS (and GIS), back in my Masters, I knew what r.shaded.relief would do.
I wouldn't be sure in the case of r.relief or r.shade.
If we have r.local.relief in the addons, it's great but a new user might
not know about this, so the name still can cause confusion.

Making the names shorter doesn't necessarily make them better, IMO.

I'd say r.shaded.relief should stay as it was.

As for r.shade, I'd go with something like r.drape.shade or r.shade.drape
(because that's what it is doing) or r.shade.mapping (but this could be
confusing as well - is it mapping the shades?..)

cheers

Carlos








On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> I agree with Carlos on this , I think r.shaded.relief was pretty clear
> what it was doing. As I learned recently, r.relief indeed can be confused
> with any of the numerous relief metrics.
>
> Helena
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Carlos Grohmann <
>> carlos.grohmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I just installed the latest pkg for GRASS 7 on OSX (nice splash screen
>> BTW)
>> > and r.shaded.relief is now just r.relief
>> >
>> > Is it too much if ask why this change? To me, r.shaded.relief is so
>> much better, it describes the module.
>>
>> I did the rename after discussion with Michael Barton and Markus Neteler.
>> We've tried to consider different names for several modules and picked the
>> ones which seemed less confusing. See the discussion:
>>
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2014-November/071904.html
>>
>> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Re-GRASS-SVN-r62845-in-grass-trunk-scripts-d-shadedmap-r-shadedmap-td5174184.html
>>
>> >
>> > r.relief might be confusing (is it to calculate some rellief-related
>> parameter?
>>
>> I'm afraid that in case of these modules, basically anything can be
>> confusing. Let us know what do you think after reading the discussion, so
>> we have some more feedback.
>>
>> > local relief? other morphometric parameter?).
>>
>> BTW, there is r.local.relief in addons.
>>
>> Vaclav
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > best
>> >
>> > Carlos
>> >
>> >
>> >
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