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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Therefor Anna`s suggestion below seems quite reasonable, in order to e.g. identify differences between solutions proposed, pros and cons and for preparing a decision on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">></span><span lang="EN-US">We probably need to put all these (detailed) suggestions on trac.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">></span><span lang="EN-US">Anna<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Finally, I could think of two other “improvements” (I do not want to make things more complicated):
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">I was just wondering, every module has a manual, the startup-screen does not. What about having a e.g. the “Location and Mapsets” wiki page as a manual behind e.g. a (not too flashy) question-mark-button
on the on the welome screen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">When providing a demo location, personally, I would be afraid that people blindly start using it for their work. Would it be possible to launch an info message every time a user starts
a mapset in “demolocation”, which tells that it is meant for demo purposes only and that he/she should build up a GRASS GIS database according to the relevant maping context (providing access/link to in depth “Location and Mapset” information)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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