On Jan 7, 2008, at 11:20 PM, grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
IIRC it is optional because you might want to just list the available
layers in the input OGR source (-l flag), in which case you don't need to
specify an output map.Paul
I think it is also optional because by default v.in.ogr will use the name of the source file for the destination. I think that r.in.gdal does too.
Michael
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