#323: Consistency in adjectives used for GRASS' "geographic region"
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Reporter: nikos | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Docs | Version: unspecified
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1. In the man(ual) page of g.region one reads in the Description: boundary
definitions for the geographic region
2. The parameters talk about "current region"
3. In the Map Display the "Zoom to..." button contains the term
"computational region"
Wouldn't it make sense to use everywhere only one term? Something like
"active region" or "computational region" or just "region".
#323: Consistency in adjectives used for GRASS' "geographic region"
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Reporter: nikos | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Docs | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords:
Platform: All | Cpu: Unspecified
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Comment (by hamish):
see also #320, as they are both about the semantics and interpretation of
the "region" term. I doubt we can ever make everyone happy with one term
for complex ideas, but we can focus on explaining well in the
documentation about what we mean by each version and then being consistent
with it.
wrt this ticket, the g.region module is concerned with the mapset's WINDow
file. This is the current working region & resolution settings which
processing modules will use. This long predates any GUI version.
For non-GUI use only this region matters.
"Computational region" is used by the GUI to distinguish the above region
from the display/rendering region in the map display window.
Perhaps the GUI should not use the term "region" at all unless it is
referring to the computational one? Perhaps it should talk about "zoom"
instead?
#323: Consistency in adjectives used for GRASS' "geographic region"
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Reporter: nikos | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Docs | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords:
Platform: All | Cpu: Unspecified
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Comment (by nikos):
Replying to [comment:1 hamish]:
> ...but we can focus on explaining well in the documentation about what
we mean by each version and then being consistent with it.
I would like to see as less as possible different terms and consistency
along the documentation.
> wrt this ticket, the g.region module is concerned with the mapset's
WINDow file. This is the current working region & resolution settings
which processing modules will use. This long predates any GUI version.
>
> For non-GUI use only this region matters.
>
>
> "Computational region" is used by the GUI to distinguish the above
region from the display/rendering region in the map display window.
> Perhaps the GUI should not use the term "region" at all unless it is
referring to the computational one? Perhaps it should talk about "zoom"
instead?
I am not sure what would be best. However, I want to emphasize that
"region", being one of the most important elements of GRASS, is a bit
difficult to understand in the beginning. It's all about clear and
consistent terms/descriptions (after all, isn't it?).