The Wonderful World of GRASS (Was: The wonderful world of Internet)
What does GRASS have that other GIS-s are missing? In effect a GIS to
most of us is I guess just one of the tools to aid doing our job. Yet
there's something strange going on here. People are programming,
searching for bugs, figuring out how to fit things in shell scripts,
try teaching and helping each other, debating -- I myself sometimes am
``pouring salt in open wounds'' as well. For most of us, these
activeties don't show up in our job descriptions. (Bye bye spare time.)
Would we do this for a xxxxx $ GIS out of a box?
What is this GRASS? .... a disease? If yes, is it serious?
Raymond
On Tue, 30 Nov 1993, Raymond Venneker wrote:
What does GRASS have that other GIS-s are missing? In effect a GIS to
most of us is I guess just one of the tools to aid doing our job. Yet
there's something strange going on here. People are programming,
searching for bugs, figuring out how to fit things in shell scripts,
try teaching and helping each other, debating --
Would we do this for a xxxxx $ GIS out of a box?
Well, *we* might not, because *we* use GRASS and maybe not some commercial
product. Others do, though, except for programming and searching for bugs
(which, in the general case of commercial software, is reserved for the
elite clique of proprietary specialists in the employ of the company
maintaining the software). There's a USENET newsgroup comp.infosystems.gis
with wide readership (wrt GIS platforms), and at least one LISTSERV that I
know about. I don't use the LISTSERV, but c.i.gis gets at least as much
traffic, on average, as grassu and grassp together, and only a small part
of that traffic ertains to PD products such as GRASS.
-- Mark
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