[Qgis-developer] grass modules

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Fri Jul 24 07:53:59 EDT 2009


Hi all.
Some grass modules seem redundant, with caveats:
- v.out.ogr.gml and the generic v.out.ogr

The generic one does not seem to work for GML:
v.out.ogr input=test at user1 type=area layer=1 format=GML dsn=/home/paolo/Desktop
olayer=prova2 -e -c
ERROR 4: Failed to create GML file /home/paolo/Desktop.
Unable to open OGR data source '/home/paolo/Desktop'

whereas v.out.ogr.gml works, apparently because it allows to define the layer name

- v.out.ogr.mapinfo and the generic v.out.ogr
I think the generic one is more than enough for mapinfo; I suggest to remove the
specific one (that has also a wrong description)

- r.out.gdal.gtiff and v.out.ogr
the only difference is that the gtiff module automatically writes the file
extension (.tif), whereas the generic one writes a file without extension, which
can e confusing and annoying. I would suggest to remove the specific one if the
generic can cope with this.
All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc


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