Hello Tim, On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Tim Michelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Nevertheless, I cannot get around expressing my disappointment about > GRASS in this area. > * I cannot just point the program to a directory of shapefiles and tell > it import all. QGIS, gvSIG and ArcGIS can do this.
We could easily add v.in.ogr.all or v.external.all, I suppose two or three lines of shell script :) Could be stored in the Addons wiki. > * I cannot reproject these on the fly be changing the projection of my > location. Yes, because it was decided to not support that (see archive of this list). And, using QGIS I regularly *fail* to do this job. > => Whenever it comes to data format conversion and reprojection people > on QGIS/GRASS Maillists tend to tell the user: get your keyboard and > hack something with OGR/GDAL (Re: converting .asc to .xyz, > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.qgis.user/2519). > In clear words this means that the software is not ready, yet. I don't agree. You can easily import and reproject single maps even with the various d.m/gis.m/wxpython user interfaces: - create new location *graphically* from startup menu, now even with location wizard. - run r/v.proj Not too much keyboard needed here. > This tells me that these GIS are not made for "normal" Desktop GIS task > and mapping. > Maybe GRASS is good for some very specialised and automatisable tasks. > But to make a beautiful and printable map from a buch of data that can > be interpreted? see http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Cartography_tools -> work in progress ... > Why did I write disappointment? Because GRASS is advertised by OSGEO as > THE most powerful free GIS that can perform any task. Where did you see "any task"? Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
