> > > I find the fact that GRASS does not provide a default >> > projection system, but forces the user to think about projection from the >> > start, one of its strengths, both for work and for teaching. >>> >> On of it strenghts, yes. But I have been teaching GRASS a lot to GIS >> professionals who got trained on different systems. And many asked >> "why this screen? why cannot you just start like the other GIS"? And I > >tend to agree (again: optionally). The point is that we, on the > >contrary to many other GIS, still have all the control mechanisms in >> place which avoid that the user mixes projections. So that's all fine. > >And what will you do after 'just starting'? Do you have your data as LL? Or will you use -o flag to ignore >the projection check?
I agree. I can't see any benefit to be automatically in a LL location, as in many cases your data will be in other SRSs. what may be make sense: define your projection/srs by import your first data and offer this option in a prominent way in the welcome screen and not "hidden" in the location wizzard as at the moment. and what I've learned from GRASS GIS :-) when using other GIS software: first check SRSs of my data, open GIS software, define SRS and then load data. my 0.02c ----- best regards Helmut -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Making-start-of-GRASS-GIS-easier-for-newcomers-tp5182982p5183058.html Sent from the Grass - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
