On Sunday 07 October 2007, Hamish wrote: > Hi, > > if there are no objections I will rename r.cats to be r.category (to match > v.category), leaving a r.cats symlink for backwards compatibility for the > duration of GRASS 6.x. > > In addition I mean to move/copy the copy cats from raster= option from > r.support to r.category and add a rules= option to import category labels > from a file. > (r.support raster= is not in 6.2.x so no crime to move it, although if > someone cares we can copy it with a note that it will be removed for GRASS > 7; or maybe r.suppport is a better place for these things, not r.cats? but > r.support is already crowded) > > I am unsure if it is better for the import format to match the current > r.cats output format, or to try and follow what r.reclass has. For FP maps > we will have to accept "a thru b<FS>Label" as well as "a<FS>Label" input > rules. (<FS> comes from the fs= option) > > Note the category labels can be matched to FP ranges, see the nice writeup > in the GRASS 5.0 programmers' manual section 5.4. (I expect in the 6 prog > manual too but I don't have that on hand right now) > > > ideas welcome, > Hamish >
This sounds like a great addition. Assigning labels to FP ranges, or even a simple approach to assigning labels to integer maps would be useful. Thanks! Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
