#1513: Location Wizard's misleading label for XY new location creation method
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Reporter: alf | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: wxGUI | Version: 6.4.1
Keywords: | Platform: All
Cpu: Unspecified |
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Hi,
stepping through the Location Wizard wxGUI, I noticed the last entry in
the list of methods for defining a new location, the XY method states:
'Create an arbitrary non-earth coordinate system (XY)'.
This can be misleading as the planetary/satellite/asteroids locations can
be described by proj4, WKT, or an existing planetary map. I'd suggest to
change the label in:
'Create a cartesian coordinate system (XY)' or 'Create a generic cartesian
coordinate system (XY)'
"Create a generic Cartesian coordinate system (XY)" sounds ok to me.
btw I've added your ellipse.table.solar.system in trunk, TODO is a radio
button in the ellipsoid choosing page of the Wizard to alternately select
[*] Earth based, Planetary bodies, and then parse the other list. Even
if most people don't use that I think some portion of them will have fun
exploring, especially with MOLA and Moon elevation data being available
for use in generic tutorials.
I notice than in ellipse.table.solar.system some entries are upper cased
and some are lowercased, and at least on UNIX that makes all the upper
case ones come first if I combine the two ellipse.tables together. -> All
upper or all lowercase?
#1513: Location Wizard's misleading label for XY new location creation method
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Reporter: alf | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.3
Component: wxGUI | Version: 6.4.1
Keywords: location wizard, ellipsoids, planetary | Platform: All
Cpu: All |
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Comment(by hamish):
Replying to [comment:1 hamish]:
> btw I've added your ellipse.table.solar.system in trunk,
> TODO is a radio button in the ellipsoid choosing page of the
> Wizard to alternately select [*] Earth based, Planetary
> bodies, and then parse the other list. Even if most people don't
> use that I think some portion of them will have fun exploring,
> especially with MOLA and Moon elevation data being available for
> use in generic tutorials.
Hi,
I've now added the radio button selector in trunk, but I sort of ran up
against the limits of my wx + python know-how. It's mostly there but
something is stopping it from making it onto the final summary page.
Also that breaks the airy ellipsoid for now, probably others too.
#1513: Location Wizard's misleading label for XY new location creation method
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Reporter: alf | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.3
Component: wxGUI | Version: 6.4.1
Resolution: fixed | Keywords: location wizard, ellipsoids, planetary
Platform: All | Cpu: All
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Changes (by hamish):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
creation of locations with ellipsoid but no datum (thus planetary
ellipsoids) now fixed in trunk. see #1967. tested on debian/squeeze with
proj4 version 4.7.0.
