On 22.01.2015 10:32, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
> > 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.
+1
Nikos
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
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