[GRASS-user] GIS software popularity ranking: http://gisgeography.com/mapping-out-gis-software-landscape

[Ken Mankoff]

On 2016-09-27 at 16:57, Dave Roberts <droberts at montana.edu> wrote:
> Sadly, it's not just Microsoft users that take the GUI view. A couple
> of years ago GRASS was reviewed in Linux Journal and they didn't even
> mention it was scriptable. I wrote a letter to the editor to point
> that out and they responded that that was minimally interesting.

I predict scriptable interfaces will become more popular as larger data and "reproducible research" become more important. The former is why almost all GIS packages include script capabilities. The latter will increase its usage. Then it is up to users to realize that something designed to be scriptable works better than something where the scripting is added on to a GUI.

  -k.