Paul,
I think your last text edit is the best one so far (from
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-August/025424.html) - and I agree
with Trevor's idea to have the order changed to Database/Location/Mapset to
reflect the true hierarchy.
~ Eric.
-----Original Message-----
From: grass-dev-bounces@grass.itc.it
To: Trevor Wiens
Cc: grass-dev
Sent: 8/30/2006 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] grass63 -text startup screen
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Trevor Wiens wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:57:49 +0100 (BST)
Paul Kelly <paul-grass@stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:Hello Maciek
I suggested some improved text a while ago:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-July/024686.htmlThere were no objections - I will commit this if there still are
none.
Paul,
Reading through the text at the link you provide the definition of
database as a unix directory. Perhaps, since there are other platforms
involved it should be rephrased to read
--
DATABASE: This is the directory (folder) containing all the GRASS
locations.
--
I think this terminology would be more understandable to Mac/Windows
users.I would suggest the following change for two additions for MAPSET. The
first short sentence about a location containing one or more is
intended to make clear that a MAPSET is a subset of a LOCATION. The
second addition at the end is an introduction to the concept of
managing data for different users, modified from the GRASS Quickstart
page. Perhaps the second sentence is too long, but I think the first
is
a worthy addition.
Yes we only have a limited number of lines to work with! (Without it
getting very complicated and having to look at other code and adjust
things, which is probably more than it's worth doing for this.)
So yes Trevor's additions seem quite worthy but a little bit long. I
thought there perhaps there is no need to really mention spearfish
seeing (as
Maciek said) that it no longer comes with GRASS by default (AFAIK it
used to
many years ago) and mentioning it there just confuses things. So if we
don't mention spearfish then we can save a line from the Location
description and make the Mapset description a line longer. Also took on
board all the comments about the Database description and here is the
latest version:
LOCATION: This is the name of a geographic location. It is defined by a
co-ordinate system and a rectangular boundary.
MAPSET: Each GRASS session runs under a particular MAPSET. This
consists of
a rectangular REGION and a set of maps. Every LOCATION
contains at
least a MAPSET called PERMANENT, which is readable by all
sessions.
DATABASE: This is a directory (folder) containing the GRASS locations.
The REGION defaults to the entire area of the chosen LOCATION.
You may change it later with the command: g.region
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