Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Yann Chemin: Continuing the crazy thoughts, You could have FFT/wavelet parameters per column of a raster image hard-coded to create an image on request (that I could do I think). Markus Neteler wrote: ... r.surf.fractal does this... but: About a vector, well a set of polygon arcs pairs ca

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Yann Chemin wrote: > Continuing the crazy thoughts, > You could have FFT/wavelet parameters per column of a raster image > hard-coded to create an image on request (that I could do I think). ... r.surf.fractal does this... but: > About a > vector, well a set of p

Re: [GRASS-dev] New wiki page summarising GRASS APIs

2015-01-30 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Moritz, On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote: > Hi, > > In preparation of a talk at the geospatial devroom at the FOSSDEM this > weekend, I've elaborated a wiki page on the current GRASS GIS APIs: > > http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_APIs > > I still need to complete

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Vincent Bain
Le vendredi 30 janvier 2015 à 21:24 +0100, Vincent Bain a écrit : > > I send a synthesis in a moment. > > There it is : http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Identity Bye, Vincent ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.or

[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2569: Allow v.db.reconnect.all to handle database errors more graciously

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2569: Allow v.db.reconnect.all to handle database errors more graciously -+-- Reporter: ewcgrass | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: no

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2208: r.in.gdal/v.in.ogr: reprojection at import

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2208: r.in.gdal/v.in.ogr: reprojection at import +--- Reporter: mlennert| Owner: grass-dev@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Prior

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2568: Upper-lower case issues with sqlite driver and affect on v.db.reconnect.all

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2568: Upper-lower case issues with sqlite driver and affect on v.db.reconnect.all ---+ Reporter: ewcgrass | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect| Status: closed Priori

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Vincent Bain
Le vendredi 30 janvier 2015 à 18:52 +, Michael Barton a écrit : > > Since this combination doesn’t exist, I’m not yet sure how best to > express this on the page. Yes, I was at that point of reflexion, then I decided to sum up things in a 3x5 array, it will come soon -- between two power cuts

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Blumentrath, Stefan
Dear all, I would like to support Michael`s and Nikos`s suggestions for changes in the descriptions on the welcome screen in trunk, as I think careful and well-thought-out wording will be an important means of "Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers". On courses here at the University

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2208: r.in.gdal/v.in.ogr: reprojection at import

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2208: r.in.gdal/v.in.ogr: reprojection at import +--- Reporter: mlennert| Owner: grass-dev@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Prior

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Michael Barton
This is sort of beginning to sound like what we already have. That is, we have a button on the web site that downloads a demo data set that is already organized in a location and mapset. Michael C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor o

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Michael Barton
Thanks for doing the voting page Martin. There seem to be 4 main components to the splash screen decisions: 1) Which image to use (we seem to be narrowing that down a lot) 2) Which font (unless we are set now with Fira Sans for the sans serif font) 3) Whether to use upper or lower case 4) Where t

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) -+-- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: closed Pr

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) -+-- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: reopened Pr

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) -+-- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: reopened Pr

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Vincent Bain
Naturally, it is a blender scene rendered with Cycles engine. It is a bit tricky to use if you don't know Blender; for those familiar with Blender it involves a particle system where density is controled by vertex groups. Everything else is very basic if you are at ease with node editor (for mater

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) -+-- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: reopened Pr

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Martin Landa
2015-01-30 17:38 GMT+01:00 Martin Landa : > 2015-01-30 17:36 GMT+01:00 Yann Chemin : >> is there a way to make a public poll online with the different versions and >> send the link on GRASS-dev and GRASS-user MLs, then give a sunday midnight >> close of poll? > > wiki page for voting would be enoug

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Vincent, is this beautiful 3D-scene available for others to experiment with? Nikos ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev

Re: [GRASS-dev] Compute mahalanobis distance using Scipy

2015-01-30 Thread Paulo van Breugel
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:59 Moritz Lennert wrote: On 29/01/15 18:30, Paulo van Breugel wrote: > I would like to compute a raster layer with for each raster cell the > mahalanobis distance to the centre of the environmental space// formed > by all reference data points (raster cells). In R this can

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Martin Landa
Hi Vincent, 2015-01-30 17:41 GMT+01:00 Vincent Bain : [...] > I try to make a last suggestion tonight. thanks for your hard work!!! Martin -- Martin Landa http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa http://gismentors.eu/mentors/landa ___ grass-dev mailing li

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Vincent Bain
OK Martin, your sum up is appreciable. The first one cannot be used, in cause the license attached to the font, I am guilty not to have cleaned the wiki page in time. I'll propose a similar typeface to replace it. I try to make a last suggestion tonight. Vincent. Le vendredi 30 janvier 2015 à 1

Re: [GRASS-dev] Compute mahalanobis distance using Scipy

2015-01-30 Thread Paulo van Breugel
Thanks! I am traveling right now so will look at this as soon as I am back, but this looks promising. Much appreciated. On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:40 Glynn Clements wrote: > > Paulo van Breugel wrote: > > > I would like to compute a raster layer with for each raster cell the > > mahalanobis distance

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Martin Landa
2015-01-30 17:36 GMT+01:00 Yann Chemin : > is there a way to make a public poll online with the different versions and > send the link on GRASS-dev and GRASS-user MLs, then give a sunday midnight > close of poll? wiki page for voting would be enough, I would say. Martin -- Martin Landa http://ge

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Yann Chemin
is there a way to make a public poll online with the different versions and send the link on GRASS-dev and GRASS-user MLs, then give a sunday midnight close of poll? On 30 January 2015 at 21:23, Martin Landa wrote: > Hi, > > 2015-01-30 15:13 GMT+01:00 Vincent Bain : > > I fear it is an endless d

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) -+-- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: reopened Pr

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) -+-- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: reopened Pr

[GRASS-dev] New wiki page summarising GRASS APIs

2015-01-30 Thread Moritz Lennert
Hi, In preparation of a talk at the geospatial devroom at the FOSSDEM this weekend, I've elaborated a wiki page on the current GRASS GIS APIs: http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_APIs I still need to complete the part on the C-API, but any feedback is welcome, especially if I put any n

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) -+-- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: closed Pr

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2015-01-30 15:13 GMT+01:00 Vincent Bain : > I fear it is an endless discussion anyway. Objectivity is hard to reach > in that domain of graphic design. this is what we need to avoid. RC2 is waiting for a new splash and welcome banner. I can see three candidates [1]. Please free add new candid

[GRASS-dev] pygrass: append new point to map of points

2015-01-30 Thread Moritz Lennert
Hello, Is it possible in pygrass to append a new point to a map of points (same for other features) ? Or do I have to get all the features of a map, and the new feature, and then write all features to a new map ? Moritz ___ grass-dev mailing list gr

Re: [GRASS-dev] Compute mahalanobis distance using Scipy

2015-01-30 Thread Glynn Clements
Paulo van Breugel wrote: > I would like to compute a raster layer with for each raster cell the > mahalanobis distance to the centre of the environmental space formed by all > reference data points (raster cells). In R this can be done as explained > here [1]. > > . I would like to do this using

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Vincent Bain
Le vendredi 30 janvier 2015 à 13:41 +0100, Moritz Lennert a écrit : > On 30/01/15 13:15, Vincent Bain wrote: > > Trying to satisfy everyone's claims, I propose another splash screen : > > - capitalized GRASS GIS (boohhh ;-)) ; > > - centered layout with title underneath logo. > > > > It is availabl

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2564: r.what: remove 400 maps limit and add some new output options

2015-01-30 Thread Sören Gebbert
Dear Stefan, thank you very much for your feedback, the patch and suggestions. I have integrated some of your suggestions in t.rast.what. There is now stdout and coordinates support in the latest trunk version (r64368). The column layout bug is now fixed and the documentation was updated according

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On 30.01.2015 14:24, Yann Chemin wrote: still +1 for http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:GRASSGIS_splash5.jpg me too, +1 (for lower case letters as well). This splash is "so very" well crafted. Nikos ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.os

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On 30.01.2015 14:35, Yann Chemin wrote: Continuing the crazy thoughts, You could have FFT/wavelet parameters per column of a raster image hard-coded to create an image on request (that I could do I think). About a vector, well a set of polygon arcs pairs can easily be stored in code and (i su

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) +--- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: new Prior

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError) +--- Reporter: santipardo | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: new Prior

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 30/01/15 13:15, Vincent Bain wrote: Trying to satisfy everyone's claims, I propose another splash screen : - capitalized GRASS GIS (boohhh ;-)) ; - centered layout with title underneath logo. It is available on the wiki page, it comes with a welcome banner too. /Beware that we might progress

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Yann Chemin
Continuing the crazy thoughts, You could have FFT/wavelet parameters per column of a raster image hard-coded to create an image on request (that I could do I think). About a vector, well a set of polygon arcs pairs can easily be stored in code and (i suppose) imported on the fly as a vector. On 30

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Yann Chemin
still +1 for http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:GRASSGIS_splash5.jpg On 30 January 2015 at 17:45, Vincent Bain wrote: > Trying to satisfy everyone's claims, I propose another splash screen : > - capitalized GRASS GIS (boohhh ;-)) ; > - centered layout with title underneath logo. > > It is avai

Re: [GRASS-dev] [BUG 7.0.90RC1] Version not stated explicitly in RC1

2015-01-30 Thread Rainer M Krug
Markus Neteler writes: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> The version info of GRASS GIS 7.0.0RC1 is missing the explicit statement >> of the version number - see output below. >> >> It is mentioned in the contributions section, but not explicitly as the >> first line as

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Vincent Bain
Trying to satisfy everyone's claims, I propose another splash screen : - capitalized GRASS GIS (boohhh ;-)) ; - centered layout with title underneath logo. It is available on the wiki page, it comes with a welcome banner too. /Beware that we might progressively turn the result into something quit

Re: [GRASS-dev] [BUG 7.0.90RC1] Version not stated explicitly in RC1

2015-01-30 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > The version info of GRASS GIS 7.0.0RC1 is missing the explicit statement > of the version number - see output below. > > It is mentioned in the contributions section, but not explicitly as the > first line as in GRASS GIS 6.4.4 > > Thanks, >

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Markus Neteler
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Vincent Bain wrote: > Le mercredi 28 janvier 2015 à 17:42 +0200, Nikos Alexandris a écrit : >> The ones @ >> >> are for the Wiki... !? If anyone is interested. > > Sorry Nik

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Maybe a crazy idea, but... if access to internet isn't an option, maybe the "button" can create a Location and Mapset(s), and let a script create some artificial vector and raster maps? So a user can still play along with unreal data. Nikos ___ gra

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Rainer M Krug
Yann Chemin writes: > +1 for a button, but I am not sure sure a data download is that > necessary... I think a download button would be useful as the demo location should be in the home directory so that the user can play with it. The disadvantage would be that the user has to be online for thi

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 30/01/15 11:01, Yann Chemin wrote: +1 for a button, but I am not sure sure a data download is that necessary... The button might just be a script creating a (several?) empty Location(s?) in a directory that the user can choose. I think the idea was to have a location with some data already i

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Yann Chemin
+1 for a button, but I am not sure sure a data download is that necessary... The button might just be a script creating a (several?) empty Location(s?) in a directory that the user can choose. On 30 January 2015 at 15:20, Moritz Lennert wrote: > On 29/01/15 17:43, Vaclav Petras wrote: > >> On

Re: [GRASS-dev] Compute mahalanobis distance using Scipy

2015-01-30 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 29/01/15 18:30, Paulo van Breugel wrote: I would like to compute a raster layer with for each raster cell the mahalanobis distance to the centre of the environmental space// formed by all reference data points (raster cells). In R this can be done as explained here [1]. . I would like to do t

Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

2015-01-30 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 29/01/15 17:43, Vaclav Petras wrote: On the MS Windows installer takes care of that by copying demo Location to newly created grassdata dir in Documents and creating the rc file. Is this enough? If not why? And do we want to do something similar for cases when installation is not done by GRASS

[GRASS-dev] [BUG 7.0.90RC1] Version not stated explicitly in RC1

2015-01-30 Thread Rainer M Krug
The version info of GRASS GIS 7.0.0RC1 is missing the explicit statement of the version number - see output below. It is mentioned in the contributions section, but not explicitly as the first line as in GRASS GIS 6.4.4 Thanks, Rainer , | $ grass70 --version | | Geographic Resources Analys

Re: [GRASS-dev] Getting version number *before* starting

2015-01-30 Thread Rainer M Krug
Vaclav Petras writes: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Blumentrath, Stefan < > stefan.blumentr...@nina.no> wrote: > >> What about grass70 --config? >> >> Cheers >> >> Stefan >> > > --config does not work for 64. unfortunately not - but one could always make an exception for 64. > > For 70 it

Re: [GRASS-dev] Getting version number *before* starting

2015-01-30 Thread Rainer M Krug
Vaclav Petras writes: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I would, for implementation in spgrass7 in R, to be able to get the version >> number of GRASS GIS before starting GRASS. > > > I know about the --version parameter of grass command. This is for "human c

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2568: Upper-lower case issues with sqlite driver and affect on v.db.reconnect.all

2015-01-30 Thread GRASS GIS
#2568: Upper-lower case issues with sqlite driver and affect on v.db.reconnect.all --+- Reporter: ewcgrass | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect| Status: new Priority:

Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

2015-01-30 Thread Luca Delucchi
On 29 January 2015 at 16:13, Martin Landa wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > > or we can vote for the current proposals: > > 1) upper-case > > http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/w/images/GRASSGIS_splash4.jpg > + > http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/w/images/GRASSGIS_welcome_banner1.jpg > > 2) lower-case > > http://grasswiki.