[GRASS-dev] first users main trouble

[Yann Chemin]

Yes Benjamin,

2 third or more are generally non-GIS non-geographical background and
Windows users.
Remaining ArcGIS/ArcView and sometimes i got chance with a couple of BSD
teaching guys.
Also, for the first time I saw a person (in Thailand) coming up with an
Ubuntu laptop, made things easier.... In Laos, no Internet, major amount of
viruses on computers... sorry... not the topic.

I do recognize the power of GRASS by all means, I am just trying to get
people started up faster. From Null() to G_anything().

:-)



On 14/03/2008, Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
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> >
> > Just adding a little bit on what wall very first GIS users are
> banging...
> > Yann
>
>
> Are they really first time GIS users? Or first time GRASS users?
> If they have had exposition to other GIS before, chances are it will
> have been ArcGIS or MapInfo -- i.e. a Desktop GIS. If it was a
> Workstation class GIS, such as ArcInfo or IDRISI, they should have
> far less trouble,
>
> GRASS being rather of the Workstation type, Currently, GRASS does not
> try  to emulate the heavily interactive Desktop GIS workflow too much,
> as it only gets in the way of (semi-) automated and mass data processing
> for which GRASS is the ruling champion.
>
> Benjamin
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