[GRASS-user] Re: Suggestion for website/manual

[David Finlayson]

I think it would be perfect for the wiki. A few other issues would be
the difference between grass region vs. setwindow/mapextent; grass
LOCATION/MAPSET vs. ArcInfo's directory structure (none).  And of
course, how to convert your data back and forth.

On 6/14/06, Dylan Beaudette <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> How about a section on the wiki, i am not so sure if it would be a
> good idea to pollute the standard man pages with arcinfo stuff.
> Perhaps something like the table which compares GRASS 5 features to
> GRASS 6.
>
> any volunteers? :)
>
> Dylan
>
> On 6/14/06, Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg at arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > It occurs to me it would be really useful to have an "arc/info equivalent"
> > portion of the GRASS website, since many of us come from an ESRI background
> > -- basically have a listing of arc commands and their respective grass
> > commands, with maybe some notes on differences between the two.  Thoughts?
> > A wiki-like approach to building this up might be the best, so each of us
> > who is working on an arc-> grass conversion project can post info on
> > comparisons of the functions.  Thoughts?
> >
> > --j
> >
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> > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
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David Finlayson