On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Hamish <hamis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hamish: >> > I know, I was trying to make the instructions generic enough to work >> > with either of the two datasets. I figured those using Spearfish would >> > see the .dem and .10m and figure out that they should pick one, but >> > those running in NC would be hunting around for an exact name which >> > didn't exist. > > MarkusM: >> So it is better to use the spearfish location but a raster name from >> the NC dataset and let users hunt around for an exact name that does >> not exist? > > Yes! I'd like to encourage a little exploring and making the student > think instead of exactly telling every move to make click by click. But > no so abstract that they get lost.
... well, with the today's click-and-try mentality this means: click-and-throw. Examples *must* work out of the box from my point of view. Also, there is not much advertisement coming from an outdated dataset of the '80th (Spearfish) while having for many years a way more recent data set available, published, and meanwhile used in most GRASS manual pages. ... > No need to apologize, we get a better end result from frank but courteous > discussion. Yes: so please let's forget about the "Spearfish" data set. My 0.02 cent, markusN _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev