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