I am raising again (at the end not so much important point)
suggestions to change terminology in grass7.
GRASS is basically layer-based GIS, in grass6 we call layers as maps,
e.g. raster map. I would suggest to use in grass7 'layer' instead
* raster layer
* 3d raster layer
* vector layer
'Map' could be used for composition of layers. And to rename all the
arguments ('map' -> 'layer').
'Layer' is currently used for vectors. Original term 'field number'
seems to me as a better choice. It would mean at the end to rename
also all 'layer' parameters to 'field'.
GRASS is basically layer-based GIS, in grass6 we call layers as maps,
e.g. raster map. I would suggest to use in grass7 'layer' instead
* raster layer
* 3d raster layer
* vector layer
'Map' could be used for composition of layers. And to rename all the
arguments ('map' -> 'layer').
'Layer' is currently used for vectors. Original term 'field number'
seems to me as a better choice. It would mean at the end to rename
also all 'layer' parameters to 'field'.
Yes, that would conform more with the terminology of most other GIS:es out there. Especially the vector layer is very confusing for people who switch to GRASS. The renaming the layer parameters might need a lot of manual work, or maybe we can device a script to do it.
2008/8/8 Wolf Bergenheim <wolf+grass@bergenheim.net>:
GRASS is basically layer-based GIS, in grass6 we call layers as maps,
e.g. raster map. I would suggest to use in grass7 'layer' instead
* raster layer
* 3d raster layer
* vector layer
'Map' could be used for composition of layers. And to rename all the
arguments ('map' -> 'layer').
'Layer' is currently used for vectors. Original term 'field number'
seems to me as a better choice. It would mean at the end to rename
also all 'layer' parameters to 'field'.
Yes, that would conform more with the terminology of most other GIS:es out
there. Especially the vector layer is very confusing for people who switch
to GRASS. The renaming the layer parameters might need a lot of manual work,
or maybe we can device a script to do it.
it would be enough to rename keys in G_define_standard_option() in
parser.c and afterwards fix all the modules which don't use
standardized parameters...