[GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

[Margherita Di Leo]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Yann Chemin <ychemin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> > hmm that would be cool !
> > running r(v).in.* without GISDBASE or Location or mapset could trigger a
> > wizard to set them up...
>
> This is the current location wizard.
>
> The original topic was import and on-the-fly reprojection without the
> need to create a new location. This can be easily done by either a new
> script that calls r.in.gdal/v.in.ogr + r.proj/v.proj which creates the
> new location internally and deletes it when done, or a wizard doing
> the same thing. The user does not even notice that a temporary
> location was created. Sextante for example works this way.
>


This would be lovely to have! Perhaps using ogr2ogr / gdalwarp before
importing would be even faster.


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Dr. Margherita DI LEO
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European Commission - DG JRC
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