Yes Benjamin,<br><br>2 third or more are generally non-GIS non-geographical background and Windows users.<br>Remaining ArcGIS/ArcView and sometimes i got chance with a couple of BSD teaching guys.<br>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. <br>
<br>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().<br><br>:-)<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/03/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Benjamin Ducke</b> <<a href="mailto:benjamin.ducke@ufg.uni-kiel.de">benjamin.ducke@ufg.uni-kiel.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> ><br> > Just adding a little bit on what wall very first GIS users are banging...<br> > Yann<br> <br> <br>Are they really first time GIS users? Or first time GRASS users?<br> If they have had exposition to other GIS before, chances are it will<br>
have been ArcGIS or MapInfo -- i.e. a Desktop GIS. If it was a<br> Workstation class GIS, such as ArcInfo or IDRISI, they should have<br> far less trouble,<br> <br> GRASS being rather of the Workstation type, Currently, GRASS does not<br>
try to emulate the heavily interactive Desktop GIS workflow too much,<br> as it only gets in the way of (semi-) automated and mass data processing<br> for which GRASS is the ruling champion.<br> <br> Benjamin<br> <br> ><br>
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