On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Martin Landa <landa.mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > 2015-01-23 9:20 GMT+01:00 Markus Neteler <nete...@osgeo.org>: > > my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many > > potential new users try to launch GRASS, do not get past that screen and > > walk away ("too difficult"). Yes, and they will likely not read the > manual > > but just take another GIS. > > This is a multiple times reported fact. > > I have met a lot of GIS specialists who told me: I tried several times > to use GRASS in different decades and I end up with the same result, I > didn't managed to get my data in, so I gave up. > > It' a sign in my eyes that we should think how to simplify this step ;-) > That isn't a terribly good sign indeed... but, and I am asking, not trying to counter your argument.. is this not often a result to stricter data requirements of GRASS rather then difficulty of (start-up) menu's? I know GRASS reasonably well, but still am sometimes struggling to import a data layer that opens without problem in QGIS (using the right projection, etc.). Anyway, that's another subject of course. > > Martin > > -- > Martin Landa > http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa > http://gismentors.eu/mentors/landa > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >
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