[Qgis-developer] GRASS & QGIS: the future

[Victor Olaya]

Here is my opinion about this:

I think it might not be a good idea to get rid of the GRASS plugin and
leave only Processing, since there are some tools that do not fit into
Processing, So, at least for this tools, there should be a GRASS
plugin to make the available fro QGIS.

Having said that, I also think that the GRASS modules that are
actually processes (the have input and output and do some computation)
are much better in Processing, and it would be better to keep them
only there, to avoid confusion. For this, I guess that first we need
to implement some mechanism in Processing to handle layers in a GRASS
database (maybe not a easy task), so they are used just as a normal
layer. That would provide a seamless inegration, and allow Processing
to do all that a GRASS user might need in term of analysis.

In this scenario, I do not see a reason to use the GRASS plugin for,
let's say, calculating a slope layer from a DEM, when you can do it in
Processing. But until we have that, I guess it's better to keep it,
provided that there are people that still need it (basically people
with GRASS databases, as it has been said above)

my 2 cents



2014-03-27 12:49 GMT+01:00 Blumentrath, Stefan <Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no>:
> Dear all,
>
> From my user perspective (I am using both GRASS and QGIS, or the other way around, depends on topic), processing is not really a replacement for the GRASS plugin.
> It is handy and probably better for those who do not use GRASS but are interested in single functions / modules.
>
> Yet, once you have a GRASS database with a considerable amount of data, the GRASS plugin is very valuable for accessing those data in QGIS (e.g. for cartography). Also users with no or little GRASS experience benefit from the GRASS plugin in cases where they have access to a GRASS database.
> That way they can work on it without acquainting themselves with a "new" GIS in depth...
>
> Concluding, if you have the possibility to maintain it, keep the GRASS plugin in QGIS!
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini
> Sent: 27. mars 2014 12:41
> To: Nathan Woodrow
> Cc: qgis-developer; grass-dev
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] GRASS & QGIS: the future
>
> Il 27/03/2014 12:33, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto:
>> I would vote for dropping the plugin and just updating the processing
>> plugin.  Having both ways is bad for us and bad for users, even worse
>> when some functions are missing from one but not in the other.
>
> I understand well the point; however, the plugin has additional functions, e.g.:
> * a grass shell
> * a grass data browser
> * a grass digitizing environment.
> Whether these are important or not, it's a matter of users.
> All the best.
>
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