Re: Area naming convention

On 2/17/04 at 4:57 PM David Megginson wrote:

>David Luff wrote:
>
>> A lot of the TerraGear tools currently accept the option
>> --chunk=[we]XXX[ns]YY where chunk is a 10 x 10 degree area.  I'd like to
>> add the ability to specify a 1 x 1 degree area wherever that occurs, and
>> possibly also the ability to specify a single tile by (bucket) number,
>but
>> am unclear on our naming convention.  I had been using
>--tile=[we]XXX[ns]YY
>> for a 1 x 1 degree area, and was going to use --bucket=xxxxxxx for a
>single
>> tile, but it occurs to me that we seem to call individual scenery tiles
>> both tiles and buckets, so that could be confusing.  Anyone got any
>> suggestions what to call a 1 x 1 degree area?
>
>We could combine it with --width and --height options, defaulting to 10x10

>when --chunk is specified.
>
>

I guess that makes sense, and is the most flexible, even if somewhat
verbose.  The existing width option in tgvpf will need renaming though.
Any preference?

Cheers - Dave