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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>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.<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>M S <mseibel@gmail.com><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:59:11 -0400<BR>
<B>To: </B><grassuser@grass.itc.it><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [GRASS-user] Re: Suggestion for website/manual<BR>
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i would gladly be a part of a arc/info to grass translation team, or illustrating feature comparisons. <BR>
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On 6/14/06, <B>Thomas Adams</B> < Thomas.Adams@noaa.gov <a href="mailto:Thomas.Adams@noaa.gov"><mailto:Thomas.Adams@noaa.gov></a> > wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Along these same lines, it would be *really* valuable (for many) to list <BR>
side-by-side the features of GRASS vs ArcGIS and also layout arguments<BR>
supporting the use of GRASS over ArcGIS. I'm trying to do this, but I<BR>
could very much use some help. I am on a National team within the US<BR>
National Weather Service to make a recommendation on what direction to<BR>
go with GIS. Clearly, there are plusses and minuses with both. I have a<BR>
table of GIS requirements for River Forecast Centers and GRASS seems to<BR>
meet the vast majority of needs, however I am up against prejudice in<BR>
much the same way that Apple Computer has struggled against MS-Windows<BR>
users; much stemming from people who have never tried using GRASS GIS,<BR>
or at least, not in the past 4-5 years!<BR>
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Tom<BR>
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David Finlayson wrote:<BR>
> I think it would be perfect for the wiki. A few other issues would be<BR>
> the difference between grass region vs. setwindow/mapextent; grass <BR>
> LOCATION/MAPSET vs. ArcInfo's directory structure (none). And of<BR>
> course, how to convert your data back and forth.<BR>
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> On 6/14/06, Dylan Beaudette < dylan.beaudette@gmail.com <a href="mailto:dylan.beaudette@gmail.com"><mailto:dylan.beaudette@gmail.com></a> > wrote:<BR>
>> Hi Jonathan,<BR>
>><BR>
>> How about a section on the wiki, i am not so sure if it would be a<BR>
>> good idea to pollute the standard man pages with arcinfo stuff. <BR>
>> Perhaps something like the table which compares GRASS 5 features to<BR>
>> GRASS 6.<BR>
>><BR>
>> any volunteers? :)<BR>
>><BR>
>> Dylan<BR>
>><BR>
>> On 6/14/06, Jonathan Greenberg < jgreenberg@arc.nasa.gov> wrote:<BR>
>> > It occurs to me it would be really useful to have an "arc/info<BR>
>> equivalent"<BR>
>> > portion of the GRASS website, since many of us come from an ESRI <BR>
>> background<BR>
>> > -- basically have a listing of arc commands and their respective grass<BR>
>> > commands, with maybe some notes on differences between the two.<BR>
>> Thoughts?<BR>
>> > A wiki-like approach to building this up might be the best, so each <BR>
>> of us<BR>
>> > who is working on an arc-> grass conversion project can post info on<BR>
>> > comparisons of the functions. Thoughts?<BR>
>> ><BR>
>> > --j<BR>
>> ><BR>
>> > --<BR>
>> ><BR>
>> > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD<BR>
>> > NRC Research Associate<BR>
>> > NASA Ames Research Center<BR>
>> > MS 242-4<BR>
>> > Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 <BR>
>> > Phone: 415-794-5043<BR>
>> > AIM: jgrn3007<BR>
>> > MSN: jgrn3007@hotmail.com<BR>
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