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

2015-02-02 Thread Blumentrath, Stefan
Dear all, Following this relatively long thread one can observe that some arguments and proposals are being repeated, while other aspects receive probably less attention than they deserve. Therefor Anna`s suggestion below seems quite reasonable, in order to e.g. identify differences between sol

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

2015-02-02 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 02/02/15 19:07, Glynn Clements wrote: Moritz Lennert wrote: For now, I've added a warning that you should know what you are doing if you want to use these calls. Why not just use suitable examples, e.g. using subprocess.Popen() (without shell=True), with the caveat that on Windows it won'

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

2015-02-02 Thread Yann Chemin
It may sound out of place, but would it be possible to call this dialog anytime during a grass session to manage where you want to work through a known, unified interface? On Feb 3, 2015 4:42 AM, "Vaclav Petras" wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Michael Barton > wrote: > >> I think tha

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

2015-02-02 Thread Michael Barton
I think that they are equally as informative and the one on the left takes up less space. Just my opinion. Michael __ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Head, Graduate

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

2015-02-02 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Markus Metz >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras >> wrote: >> >> More improvements for startup window in r64405. >> >> Pleas

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

2015-02-02 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Michael Barton > wrote: >> >> Unfortunately the screenshots are too low resolution for me to read them >> here. So I might miss something that is on the screenshot. > > > It's just about layout, don't worry

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

2015-02-02 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Michael Barton wrote: > Unfortunately the screenshots are too low resolution for me to read them > here. So I might miss something that is on the screenshot. It's just about layout, don't worry about text. I can of course send full size if somebody wants. ___

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

2015-02-02 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Markus Metz > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras > wrote: > >> More improvements for startup window in r64405. > > Please let's not welcome a (new) user with a warning... looks scary.

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

2015-02-02 Thread Anna Petrášová
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Markus Metz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras > wrote: > > More improvements for startup window in r64405. > > > > Most notably you don't get error message when starting GRASS for the > first > > time without a rc file. After clicking OK, you

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

2015-02-02 Thread Michael Barton
__ On Feb 2, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Vaclav Petras mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Michael Barton mailto:michael.bar...@asu.edu>> wrote: To make this more compact, there is still extraneous information not needed below the location a

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

2015-02-02 Thread Markus Neteler
(now back from https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ - digging through the emails) On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Markus Metz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote: >> More improvements for startup window in r64405. Please let's not welcome a (new) user with

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

2015-02-02 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Michael Barton wrote: > To make this more compact, there is still extraneous information not > needed below the location and mapset windows. I don't think we have a consensus of what is the information needed. Shortest is no info but that's not ideal neither. Per

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

2015-02-02 Thread Markus Metz
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote: > More improvements for startup window in r64405. > > Most notably you don't get error message when starting GRASS for the first > time without a rc file. After clicking OK, you would get a browse window. > Now you just get a warning text in the

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

2015-02-02 Thread Michael Barton
To make this more compact, there is still extraneous information not needed below the location and mapset windows. Also, error messages should be in popup error windows, not displayed on the main dialog. Michael __ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamic

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

2015-02-02 Thread Vaclav Petras
More improvements for startup window in r64405. Most notably you don't get error message when starting GRASS for the first time without a rc file. After clicking OK, you would get a browse window. Now you just get a warning text in the middle of the window and it is up to you to read it and press

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

2015-02-02 Thread Glynn Clements
Paulo van Breugel wrote: > > The second version: > > > > > > VI = np.linalg.inv(covar) > > > > delta = dat_ref - stat_mean[:,None,None] > > > > m = np.sum(np.sum(delta[:,:,:,None] * delta[:,:,None,:] * > > > > VI[None,None,:,:],axis=-1),axis=-1) > > > > stat_mah = np.sqrt(m) > >

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

2015-02-02 Thread Glynn Clements
Moritz Lennert wrote: > >> For now, I've added a warning that you should know what you are doing if > >> you want to use these calls. > > > > Why not just use suitable examples, e.g. using subprocess.Popen() > > (without shell=True), with the caveat that on Windows it won't work > > for scripts,

[GRASS-dev] 8th Bolsena Hacking Event open for registration! - May 31 to June 6 2015

2015-02-02 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Dear all, I'm proud to invite you for the eight Bolsena Hacking Event this year from 31 May to 6 June 2015. The code sprint focusses collaboration between open source software developers. People can share experiences and come up with creative new ideas and collaborations. The week allows deve

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

2015-02-02 Thread Paulo van Breugel
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Paulo van Breugel wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Glynn Clements > wrote: > >> >> Paulo van Breugel wrote: >> >> > > The main speed-up will come from "inlining" distance.mahalanobis(), >> > > which is essentially: >> > > >> > > delta = u - v >> >

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2575: i.segment threshold error message should be updated

2015-02-02 Thread GRASS GIS
#2575: i.segment threshold error message should be updated --+- Reporter: madi | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2574: r.surf.icw - not working with the last version of grass7

2015-02-02 Thread GRASS GIS
#2574: r.surf.icw - not working with the last version of grass7 -+-- Reporter: bhlevca | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2574: r.surf.icw - not working with the last version of grass7

2015-02-02 Thread GRASS GIS
#2574: r.surf.icw - not working with the last version of grass7 -+-- Reporter: bhlevca | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal

[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2575: i.segment threshold error message should be updated

2015-02-02 Thread GRASS GIS
#2575: i.segment threshold error message should be updated -+-- Reporter: madi | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal |

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

2015-02-02 Thread Paulo van Breugel
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Glynn Clements wrote: > > Paulo van Breugel wrote: > > > > The main speed-up will come from "inlining" distance.mahalanobis(), > > > which is essentially: > > > > > > delta = u - v > > > m = np.dot(np.dot(delta, VI), delta) > > > return np.sqrt(m) > > >

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

2015-02-02 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 02/02/15 13:48, Glynn Clements wrote: Moritz Lennert wrote: For now, I've added a warning that you should know what you are doing if you want to use these calls. Why not just use suitable examples, e.g. using subprocess.Popen() (without shell=True), with the caveat that on Windows it won'

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

2015-02-02 Thread Glynn Clements
Moritz Lennert wrote: > For now, I've added a warning that you should know what you are doing if > you want to use these calls. Why not just use suitable examples, e.g. using subprocess.Popen() (without shell=True), with the caveat that on Windows it won't work for scripts, only compiled execut

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

2015-02-02 Thread Glynn Clements
Paulo van Breugel wrote: > > The main speed-up will come from "inlining" distance.mahalanobis(), > > which is essentially: > > > > delta = u - v > > m = np.dot(np.dot(delta, VI), delta) > > return np.sqrt(m) > > > > np.dot(v, m) is equivalent to np.sum(v * m,axis=0), and np.dot(u,v) i

Re: [GRASS-dev] automatically save/open workspace in the Mapset

2015-02-02 Thread Yann Chemin
sure, it is there Moritz. I would find that a nice option to be able to enable in Preferences. On 2 February 2015 at 14:43, Moritz Lennert wrote: > On 02/02/15 10:09, Yann Chemin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> just a thought, it would be practical to have last maps seen reopen by >> having a default maps

Re: [GRASS-dev] automatically save/open workspace in the Mapset

2015-02-02 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 02/02/15 10:09, Yann Chemin wrote: Hi, just a thought, it would be practical to have last maps seen reopen by having a default mapset being written before closing wxgui, and first reopened (if exists) on launching the wxgui in the same mapset. You know that you can just save your workspace

[GRASS-dev] automatically save/open workspace in the Mapset

2015-02-02 Thread Yann Chemin
Hi, just a thought, it would be practical to have last maps seen reopen by having a default mapset being written before closing wxgui, and first reopened (if exists) on launching the wxgui in the same mapset. Yann -- ___ grass-dev mailing list gr

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

2015-02-02 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2015-01-28 19:59 GMT+01:00 Vaclav Petras : > Done in r64345. btw, on Windows the welcome screen is now somehow bigger, location desc is missing and mapset desc is wrapped too much, see [1]. Martin [1] http://geo1.fsv.cvut.cz/landa/grass71.png -- Martin Landa http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/L

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

2015-02-02 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 01/02/15 21:22, Vaclav Petras wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Moritz Lennert mailto:mlenn...@club.worldonline.be>> wrote: On 01/02/15 12:29, Glynn Clements wrote: Pietro wrote: {{{ import os os.system('g.region rast=elevation')

Re: [GRASS-dev] Planning GRASS GIS 7.0.0RC2

2015-02-02 Thread Markus Metz
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: > Hi devs, > > time to think about getting RC2 out: > > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#Planningongoing > > The todo list includes: > > - #2409 - last call for options/flags/parameters consolidation > - ... > - Update Splash sc