[GRASS-user] Aspect direction in r.slope.aspect

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Patton, Eric
<Eric.Patton at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:
>> Good topic for discussion. I think that GRASS7 should stick with the
>> current conventions to retain backwards compatibility.
>> Dylan
>
> But I thought the whole idea of GRASS7 was to introduce new functionality
> that is not necessarily intended to be backwards compatible with 6.x series?
> The place to make the change, if anywhere, must certainly be in 7 as so much
> else is changing in the codebase as well.

I agree. GRASS 7 is there to make radical changes.

In this particular case we could add metadata, if not present it
is apparently GRASS 6 data stuff, otherwise read what the
metadata suggest for the orientation.

Markus