| 52 | | The existing raster meta-data handling is rather weak (currently stored in {{{$MAPSET/hist/$MAPNAME}}}). Total replacement will be the best option. |
| 53 | | |
| 54 | | Brad Douglas suggests: |
| 55 | | |
| 56 | | It would be very advantageous to at least support metadata as specified in [http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/csdgm_rs_exMetadataRemoteSensingExtens.pdf FGDC-STD-012-2002]. XML is an ideal file format. |
| 57 | | |
| 58 | | Nick Lawrence suggests: |
| 59 | | |
| 60 | | The GIMP project is examining the concept of a general multi-layer bitmap format. |
| 61 | | |
| 62 | | * [http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/General_multilayered_bitmap_exchange_format OpenRaster - Create Wiki] |
| 63 | | * [http://pippin.gimp.org/OpenRaster/ OpenRaster Sandbox] |
| | 52 | The existing raster meta-data handling is rather weak (currently stored in {{{$MAPSET/hist/$MAPNAME}}}). Total replacement will be the best option. See [wiki:Grass7/MetadataSupport metadata support]. |
