[GRASS-dev] Message standardization question

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

a user in the German lanuage FOSSGIS talk list is confused about the message

"Input raster must be of type CELL"

I tend to agree since "CELL" speak is not that obvious. This is the code:

raster/r.thin/io.c

int open_file(char *name)
{
...
    /* open raster map */
    cell_file = Rast_open_old(name, "");
    if (Rast_is_reclass(name, "", rname, rmapset) <= 0 &&
        Rast_get_map_type(cell_file) != CELL_TYPE) {
        Rast_close(cell_file);
        G_fatal_error(_("Input raster must be of type CELL."));
    }


Looking at
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/MessageStandardization
I don't see any best practice.

Any wording suggestions to rephrase the message?

thanks
Markus