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

[Michael Barton]

The beauty of doing this in a Wiki is that multiple people, with different
knowledge of different parts of both programs can add to it.

Michael
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From: M S <mseibel at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:59:11 -0400
To: <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Re: Suggestion for website/manual

i would gladly be a part of a arc/info to grass translation team, or
illustrating feature comparisons.

On 6/14/06, Thomas Adams < Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov
<mailto:Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> > wrote:
> 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
>> <mailto: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
>>>> >> > NRC Research Associate
>>>> >> > NASA Ames Research Center
>>>> >> > MS 242-4
>>>> >> > Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
>>>> >> > Phone: 415-794-5043
>>>> >> > AIM: jgrn3007
>>>> >> > MSN: jgrn3007 at hotmail.com
>>>> >> >
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