Hello list,
Following the suggestion of a friend I would like to give you all some feedback on my initiation with Grass J
I’ve been a user of ArcGIS for a while now and am very well adapted to the “point and click” way of doing things. During a research project dealing with forest fires and forest fuel mapping I came across the need to start using Grass as we had some common procedures to follow which were much (way much) easier to do in Grass. I didn’t know this at start and hence was quite worried it would be a huge task for me. It ended up to be much easier than I thought, basically because I had the invaluable help from my friend and from you all.
Learning the basics (Locations, mapsets, regions) took some time (no similarities to arcgis) but it was worth it! It may take some time to adapt but the detail errors I had in arcgis due to data sometimes not being in same projections were gone 
The amazing power of open source and the community contribution with tools/suggestions/addons is something out of this world 
I am and will still be learning (a lot) for the weeks/months/years to come and I do believe the work being done with the development of Grass GIS is incredibly valuable!
Big thank you to you all
Luis
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Forest Fire Research Centre | Univ. of Coimbra Rua Pedro Hispano n12 | 3030 - 289 Coimbra-Portugal |
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