geoid.exe --verbose option: Request for command line reference to indicate that output is to be directed to log file. (v 1.2.6, 06 SEPT)

[jhaasdyk-au]

ISSUE TYPE: User experience improvement URGENCY: NOT urgent PRIORITY: LOW

Description As a new user of geoid.exe (and likely other DynAdjust.exe) it is not obvious that the --verbose option will direct the additional output to a log file, rather than reported the information back at the command line. [Refer to geoid --help output at --verbose option]

The Users Guide gives a better indication (in various sections) that --verbose will result in a LOG file instead. (e.g. for geoid.exe, reftran.exe).

Expected behaviour / Recommendation REQUEST:

1. Update --verbose description in command line referencing to indicate the result of option --verbose. “Give detailed information in the log file about what xxxxx is doing.”

Operating Environment Windows 10 Enterprise DynAdjust v1.2.6 DynAdjust Users Guide.PDF (‘Sept 2022’) gather 06/SEPT/2022 from fork rogerfraser/DynAdjust

[rogerfraser]

Thanks @jhaasdyk-au. I agree, this could be better. The command line text has been updated with the following, and will appear in the next release.

  --verbose-level arg      When importing geoid information into a project, print the
                           stations for which an N-value could not be interpolated to a
                           log (*.int) file.
                             0: No information (default)
                             1: Helpful information
                             2: Extended information

[jhaasdyk-au]

Done, in updated 1.2.7.rc4 User Manual

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