#323: Consistency in adjectives used for GRASS' "geographic region"
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Reporter: nikos | Owner:
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Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Docs | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords:
Platform: All | Cpu: Unspecified
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Comment (by nikos):
Replying to [comment:1 hamish]:
> ...but we can focus on explaining well in the documentation about what
we mean by each version and then being consistent with it.
I would like to see as less as possible different terms and consistency
along the documentation.
> wrt this ticket, the g.region module is concerned with the mapset's
WINDow file. This is the current working region & resolution settings
which processing modules will use. This long predates any GUI version.
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> For non-GUI use only this region matters.
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> "Computational region" is used by the GUI to distinguish the above
region from the display/rendering region in the map display window.
> Perhaps the GUI should not use the term "region" at all unless it is
referring to the computational one? Perhaps it should talk about "zoom"
instead?
I am not sure what would be best. However, I want to emphasize that
"region", being one of the most important elements of GRASS, is a bit
difficult to understand in the beginning. It's all about clear and
consistent terms/descriptions (after all, isn't it?).
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