[GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

[Blumentrath, Stefan]

Dear all,

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.
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.


>We probably need to put all these (detailed) suggestions on trac.
>
>Anna

Finally, I could think of two other “improvements” (I do not want to make things more complicated):

1)     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.

2)     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)?


Cheers
Stefan

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