[GRASS-user] Raster names under Linux

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Glynn Clements wrote:

> Odd. Those are fine too, and quite common (the spearfish dataset contains
> several raster maps with periods).

Glynn,

   It could have been vector maps instead of rasters.

> Vector maps are limited to alphanumerics and underscores due to SQL.
> That's something we could change easily enough, though. There's no
> fundamental reason why the attribute table must have exactly the same name
> as the map.

   No, there isn't. But it makes it easier to read. I'd stay with the SQL
standard for file names.

Rich