[GRASS5] Re: [Fwd: whinging about GRASS again]

[Michael Tiemann]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 18:39, Cefn Hoile wrote:
> I'd like to offer my support to Russell's suggestion. I'm not going to 
> get into a flame war about whether I'm properly qualified to comment, 
> but just so you know where I'm coming from.
> 
> * I'm a programmer
> * I'm a naive GRASS user (a week ago I had hardly touched GIS)
[...]
> Let us just say that I spent a long time messing around with it, 
> reading all kinds of tutorials even before I could confirm to my 
> satisfaction that the GRASS toolset could properly interpret the data I 
> had, let alone render it. I still can't get the roads to render 
> properly, but I now have the elevation data rendering.
> 
> Doing things which I thought were practically unambiguous (starting 
> with an empty project, and attempting to import data files to populate 
> it) turned out to need some secret tricks to get them to do what I 
> expected.

I'm a programmer
I'm a naive GRASS user

+1

M