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

[Thomas Adams]

Along these same lines, it would be *really* valuable (for many) to list 
side-by-side the features of GRASS vs ArcGIS and also layout arguments 
supporting the use of GRASS over ArcGIS. I'm trying to do this, but I 
could very much use some help. I am on a National team within the US 
National Weather Service to make a recommendation on what direction to 
go with GIS. Clearly, there are plusses and minuses with both. I have a 
table of GIS requirements for River Forecast Centers and GRASS seems to 
meet the vast majority of needs, however I am up against prejudice in 
much the same way that Apple Computer has struggled against MS-Windows 
users; much stemming from people who have never tried using GRASS GIS, 
or at least, not in the past 4-5 years!

Tom


David Finlayson wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
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