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

[Michael Barton]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 10:00 AM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org 
 > wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:00:13 +0100
> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Aspect direction in r.slope.aspect
> To: "Patton, Eric" <Eric.Patton at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>
> Cc: GRASS user list <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
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> 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

I agree.

Michael