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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN DEFANGED_STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>With the move toward releasing GRASS 6.2, it’s time we had a new intro to greet users starting GRASS. <BR>
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I’d hoped to make something really spiffy, easy for first time users to navigate without getting confused about GRASS jargon, but still quick for experienced users. Alas, I haven’t had the time to do all this before the impending 6.2 feature freeze, but I did manage to update things somewhat from the venerable, Spartan grey intro.<BR>
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I’ve rearranged the items on the intro screen to distinguish different functions, changed the descriptions to make it clearer that locations are for projections and mapsets are where a ‘GIS’ is stored, etc. I also added a new button to create a projection location from a georeferenced file (uses GDAL/OGR via g.proj). Finally, I added some color to the intro. No I didn’t make it green, but I did add a nice GRASS graphic. <BR>
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Many thanks to Markus who helped me get this committed to the cvs, where it now resides for your geospatial enjoyment.<BR>
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I think the next step would be to replace the g.setproj terminal screen for defining projections with a nicer GUI one based on g.proj. Another thing would be to add a search function to the excellent EPSG codes database. <BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Michael<BR>
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology<BR>
School of Human Evolution & Social Change <BR>
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity<BR>
Arizona State University<BR>
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phone: 480-965-6213<BR>
fax: 480-965-7671<BR>
www: <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</a> <BR>
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