[GRASS-dev] d.m/d.gis mysteries..

[Michael Barton]

Even better idea. Who has the software to do this?

Michale
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
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> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:43:22 +0100
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>, <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] d.m/d.gis mysteries..
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
>> Moritz,
>> 
>> This is a very good idea.
>> 
>> The whole interface should be better documented, and I am periodically
>> plagued by pangs of guilt along this line. There is a page out there, but
>> things have changed so fast that I haven't kept up with it. It should
>> probably a mini-manual of its own.
>> 
>> For example, I've never gotten around to documenting either the new profiler
>> or georectifier (guilt, guilt, guilt!). Now this is catching up with me as
>> people start to use it and run into some confusion, so that it is not clear
>> if there is a bug or if it is simply not explained well enough. I keep
>> hoping that someone else will do this. But it is a bit of a chicken and egg,
>> I fear. The entire system needs to be explained enough for someone to use it
>> and explain it to others.
> 
> I have found that for explaining the GUI, small movies such as
> Sören's[1] often work wonders. Maybe we could integrate a few short ones
> into the official GRASS doc. Might be quicker than trying to write
> something where you describe the GUI...
> 
> Moritz
> 
> [1] 
> http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/screenshots/grass63fea
> ture_tour.html
> 
>> 
>> Michael
>> __________________________________________
>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> phone: 480-965-6213
>> fax: 480-965-7671
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
>>> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:07:36 +0100
>>> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
>>> Cc: Maciej Sieczka <tutey at o2.pl>, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>,
>>> <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
>>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] d.m/d.gis mysteries..
>>> 
>>> We could maybe somewhere in the doc include a hint that if one wants
>>> really precise region settings than this has to be done with g.region
>>> and not with zooming.
>> 
>