Hello list, many first time users get a little bit "estranged" by the scientifically robust way of starting GRASS by setting up a DB/location/mapset.
While the "create location from georeferenced file" button in TCLTK gui (not yet in wxpython it seems) is an very nice step, I would like your ideas about the feasibility of a CLI command similar to "grass63 rs_image.tif" or "grass63 shapfile.shp" possibly having a right-click option: "open with... => Grass63" like you can see in many OSes these days. The idea would be to create a temporary location (if not already there and compatible) from this image/GIS_cover data, import it , load layer(s), and display it(them). One more step could be creating a png out of it, with title, arrow, scale etc... as a thumbnail view of the dataset. Don't know, the extents and date/time (if any) could be added in a kind of default location holding footprints of already opened data with standard grass metadata (r.info) available on click over a given footprint... Of course with the thumbnail available somehow directly in the footprint as hyperlink, or as display option (visible/hidden), or just a hyperlink in the metadata, or if metadata can be reformatted (automatically) to html, then embed the thumbnail it... Many people face a large amount of datasets these days, and knowing where/when/what is each is a challenge. sorry, started as a simple idea, ended in a kind of cataloging project... Have a nice day, Yann
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