[GRASS-dev] Need help in writing a program in Grass GIS

Luca Delucchi lucadeluge at gmail.com
Tue May 23 07:11:54 PDT 2017


On 21 May 2017 at 20:03, CM Reddy <chalamcharla at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,

Hi,

> I am new to GIS and GRASS also. We would like to use the GRASS source and
> implement the following features.
>
> Import a shape file.
> Select a start location and end location in the map. Connect start and end
> locations with some intermediate points. Each point or location should
> uniquely identified with lat and long.
> Associate predefined properties for each identified point.
> Store the each location and it's properties in a data base.
>
> We would like to implement the above feature as additional menu in the
> existing toolbar. We would like to implement required dialog boxes or UI
> panel to display lat and long assocaited with identified locations. GUI
> should has the provision to enter properties for each location. Finally, we
> need to store them in DB after clicking a SAVE button.
>
> I request your help in building the above application. I have already
> downloaded and compiled the GRASS 7.2 on ubuntu successfully.
>
> How to extend the current GRASS application ?

GRASS is composed by singular modules, so it is quiet simple to extent

> How to build the supporting the GUI ?

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/README
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/xml/menudata.README

> Can I write a python script to build the above application ?

yes

> What are the modules to be written ?
>

probably none, I think all modules you need are already in GRASS

> - Thanks
>
> CM
>


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ciao
Luca

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