[GRASS-SVN] r36765 - grass-web/trunk/grass64/binary/mswindows/native

svn_grass at osgeo.org svn_grass at osgeo.org
Fri Apr 17 01:12:45 EDT 2009 

Author: hamish
Date: 2009-04-17 01:12:45 -0400 (Fri, 17 Apr 2009)
New Revision: 36765

Modified:
   grass-web/trunk/grass64/binary/mswindows/native/README.html
Log:
more cleanup

Modified: grass-web/trunk/grass64/binary/mswindows/native/README.html
===================================================================
--- grass-web/trunk/grass64/binary/mswindows/native/README.html	2009-04-17 01:44:34 UTC (rev 36764)
+++ grass-web/trunk/grass64/binary/mswindows/native/README.html	2009-04-17 05:12:45 UTC (rev 36765)
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@
 <ul>
 <li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Release_Notes">Release Notes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Install_GRASS">Install GRASS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Install_GRASS">Installing GRASS</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Launching_GRASS">Launching GRASS</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Sample_Data">Sample Data</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Uninstall_GRASS">Uninstall GRASS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#New_GRASS_Python_GUI">New GRASS Python GUI</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Getting_Started">Getting Started</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Missing_Modules">Missing Modules</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Known_Issues">Known Issues</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Uninstall_GRASS">Uninstalling GRASS</a></li>
 <li><a href="#How_to_Submit_Bugs">How to Submit Bugs</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Build_GRASS_From_Source">Build GRASS From Source</a></li>
 <li><a href="#GRASS_Development_Team">GRASS Development Team</a></li>
@@ -76,15 +76,15 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-WinGRASS is an experimental project, hence it can't be considered a
+WinGRASS is still an experimental project, hence it can't be considered a
 complete and fully working release of GRASS for Windows. Some features
 are missing (see <a href="#Missing_Modules">Missing Modules</a> section
 in this document), some known bugs still need to be fixed
 (see <a href="#Known_Issues">Known Issues</a> section), and other
-features may not work yet. Nevertheless, we are quite proud of the
-progress that has been made and it is our goal that the 6.4.0 release
-be a useable and useful tool to all GIS users regardless of their
-chosen computer platform.
+features may not work yet. Nevertheless, we are getting closer and are
+quite proud of the progress that has been made. It is our goal that
+the 6.4.0 release be a usable and useful tool for all GIS users
+regardless of their chosen computer platform.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -95,11 +95,14 @@
 The current release of WinGRASS, based on GRASS 6.4.0RC4, has been built
 on Windows Vista in the <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a>
 environment. The program builds on the following open source softwares and
-libraries, assistance for building many of these has been provided by the
+libraries (assistance for building many of these has been provided by the
  <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/">OSGeo4W</a>
-and <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/">GnuWin</a> projects:
+and <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/">GnuWin</a> projects):
 </p>
 
+<table>
+<tr>
+<td>
 <ul>
 <li>MSYS (1.0.11-3)</li>
 <li>Bison (2.1)</li>
@@ -111,6 +114,9 @@
 <li>PDCurses (3.3)</li>
 <li>Freetype-mingw (2.3.7)</li>
 <li>Zlib (1.2.3)</li>
+</ul>
+</td><td>
+<ul>
 <li>GDAL (1.5.4-2)*</li>
 <li>PROJ.4 (4.6.1)</li>
 <li>Libgeotiff (1.2.5-2)</li>
@@ -121,6 +127,9 @@
 <li>GPSBabel (1.3.6)</li>
 <li>PostgreSQL (8.2.3)</li>
 <li>SQLite (3.3.8)</li>
+</ul>
+</td><td>
+<ul>
 <li>PyOpenGL (3.0.0b8)</li>
 <li>Python-numpy (2.5-1.1.0)</li>
 <li>Python-win32 (2.12)</li>
@@ -132,14 +141,15 @@
 <li>Xerces-C (2.7.0)</li>
 <li>msvcrt (1.0.1-2)</li>
 </ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
 
 <p>
-* <i>with Expat, PostgreSQL and SQLite support enabled</i>
-</p>
-<p>
-** <i>with Libjpeg support enabled</i>
-</p>
+<ul>* <i>with Expat, PostgreSQL and SQLite support enabled</i></ul>
+<ul>** <i>with Libjpeg support enabled</i></ul>
 
+
 <p>
 <BR>
 The current package contains a complete build (libraries and executables)
@@ -162,9 +172,14 @@
  (<a href="http://www.gpsbabel.org/">http://www.gpsbabel.org</a>).</li>
 </ul>
 
+<p>
+The WinGRASS Installer has been made using the OpenSource NSIS
+ (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) software, available at:
+<a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net">http://nsis.sourceforge.net</a>.
+</p>
 
 <a name="Install_GRASS"></a>
-<h3>Install GRASS</h3>
+<h3>Installing GRASS</h3>
 
 <table><tr>
 <td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/Install_GRASS.png"></td>
@@ -181,137 +196,131 @@
 such as <code>C:\GRASS</code>.
 </p>
 
-<p>The WinGRASS Installer has been made using the OpenSource NSIS
- (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) software, available at:
-<a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net">http://nsis.sourceforge.net</a>.
-</p>
 
-
 <a name="Launching_GRASS"></a>
 <h3>Launching GRASS</h3>
 
 <p>
-There are three options for launching GRASS, described as follows referring
-to the GRASS Start Group menu:
+There are three main options for launching GRASS: the new wxPython GUI,
+the older Tcl/Tk based GUI, and in a DOS console. The following
+descriptions refer to the GRASS Group in the Windows Start Menu:
 </p>
 
-<table><tr>
-<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS.png"></td>
+<table>
+<tr>
+<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS.png"><BR>&nbsp;</td>
 <td align="left">Click on this icon (in the GRASS Start Group or on the
  Desktop) to launch GRASS with the new wxPython GUI.</td>
-</tr></table>
+</tr>
 
-<table><tr>
-<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS_CMD.png"></td>
+<tr>
+<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS.png"><BR>&nbsp;</td>
+<td align="left">Click on the GRASS msys icon (in the GRASS Start Group
+ or on the Desktop) to launch GRASS with the new wxPython GUI and a
+ companion UNIX-like terminal shell.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS_CMD.png"><BR>&nbsp;</td>
 <td align="left">Click on this icon to launch GRASS in text mode on the
  Windows command line.</td>
-</tr></table>
+</tr>
 
-<table><tr>
-<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS.png"></td>
-<td align="left">Click on the grass "Old GUI" icon to launch GRASS with
- the old Tcl/Tk GUI.</td>
-</tr></table>
+<tr>
+<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS.png"><BR>&nbsp;</td>
+<td align="left">Click on the GRASS "Old GUI" icon to launch GRASS with
+ the older Tcl/Tk GUI (GIS.m).</td>
+</tr>
 
-<table><tr>
+<tr>
 <td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS_MSYS_Console.png"></td>
-<td align="left">Click on this icon to open the GRASS MSYS console, that
- will let you work within a unix/linux-like shell environment.</td>
-</tr></table>
+<td align="left">Click on this icon to open a MSYS console which will
+ let you work within a UNIX-like shell environment.</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
 
-<table><tr>
-<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/GRASS.png"></td>
-<td align="left">Click on the grass msys icon (in the GRASS Start Group
- or on the Desktop) to launch GRASS with the new wxPython GUI and a
- UNIX-like terminal shell.</td>
-</tr></table>
 
-
-
 <a name="Sample_Data"></a>
-
 <h3>Sample Data</h3>
 
 <p>
-As install option, you can also download and install the following
+As installation option you can also download and install the following
 GRASS sample data sets:
 </p>
 
-<table><tr>
+<table>
+<tr>
 <td width="120" align="left" valign="top"><h4 class="nomargin">North Carolina Data Set</h4></td>
 <td align="left" valign="top">
 <p class="nomargin">Used as sample data in the
  <a href="http://www.grassbook.org">book</a> "Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS
  Approach", 3rd edition, this data set is a comprehensive collection of
  raster, vector and imagery data covering parts of North Carolina (NC),
- USA (map), prepared from public data sources provided by the North
- Carolina state and local government agencies and Global Land Cover
- Facility (GLCF).
-</p>
-<p>
+ USA. It has been prepared from public data sources provided by North
+ Carolina state and local government agencies and the Global Land Cover
+ Facility (GLCF). The primary focus is on Wake County.
+<BR>
 See also
  <a href="http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php">http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php</a>
 </p>
+<BR>
 </td>
-</tr></table>
+</tr>
 
-<table><tr>
+<tr>
 <td width="120" align="left" valign="top"><h4 class="nomargin">South Dakota Data Set</h4></td>
 <td align="left" valign="top">
-<p class="nomargin">Also known as Spearfish data set, it contains raster,
- vector and point data of South Dakota, USA (UTM projection, Clarke66
- ellipsoid, NAD27 conus)
-</p>
-<p>
+<p class="nomargin">Also known as the <i>Spearfish</i> data set, it contains
+ raster, vector and point data for Spearfish County, South Dakota, USA
+ (near Mount Rushmore). It is used in many of the module help page examples.
+<BR>
 See also
  <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/download/data6.php">http://grass.osgeo.org/download/data6.php</a>
 </p>
 </td>
-</tr></table>
+</tr>
+</table>
 
 <p>
 The sample data files will be installed into a directory called 
-"GIS DataBase", that will be created in your Documents folder.
+"GIS DataBase", which will be created in your Windows user's
+Documents folder.
 </p>
 
 
+<a name="Getting_Started"></a>
+<h3>Getting Started</h3>
 
-<a name="Uninstall_GRASS"></a>
-<h3>Uninstall GRASS</h3>
+First time users should explore the
+ <a href="http://grass.bologna.enea.it/tutorial/">first steps tutorial</a>
+after installing. Currently this still refers to the old GIS.m Tcl/Tk GUI
+frontend, but most of it should translate to the new GUI.
+<P>
+Some brief instructions for starting the new wxPython GUI are given
+<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/HowToTestGrass6">here</a>,
+but to avoid getting too confused early on you should have a quick
+read through the
+ <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/index.html">GRASS quick introduction</a>
+pages and the
+ <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Help">GRASS wiki site</a>.
+The documents there will help explain a lot of the concepts and jargon you
+will need to know.
 
-<table><tr>
-<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/Uninstall_GRASS.png"></td>
-<td align="left">To uninstall GRASS click on this icon in the GRASS
- Start Group menu and follow the instructions in it.</td>
-</tr></table>
 
-
 <a name="Missing_Modules"></a>
 <h3>Missing Modules</h3>
 
 <p>The following modules are missing in the current WinGRASS release:</p>
 
 <ul>
-<li>r.li.daemon</li>
-<li>r.li.edgedensity</li>
-<li>r.li.patchdensity</li>
-<li>r.li.patchnum</li>
-<li>r.li.shape</li>
-<li>r.li.simpson</li>
-<li>r.li.shannon</li>
-<li>r.li.mps</li>
-<li>r.li.mpa</li>
-<li>r.li.padcv</li>
-<li>r.li.padsd</li>
-<li>r.li.padrange</li>
-<li>r.li.cwed</li>
-<li>r.li.richness</li>
-<li>r.li.dominance</li>
-<li>tcltk GUI</li>
-<li>g.change.gui.py</li>
-<li>v.type.py</li>
-<li>wxnviz</li>
-<li>wxvdigit</li>
+<li>The <em>r.li</em> landscape structure analysis suite</li>
+<li>Some GUI helper scripts such as <em>g.change.gui.py</em> and <em>v.type.py</em>
+<li>The <em>wxnviz</em> 3D visualization module  for the new wxPython GUI.
+  Use <em>NVIZ</em> available from the old Tcl/Tk GIS.m GUI instead.
+<li>The <em>wxvdigit</em> vector digitization module for the new wxPython GUI.
+  Use the digitizing tools available in the old GIS.m Tcl/Tk GUI instead,
+  or the vector digitizing tools available in
+  <a href="http://www.qgis.org">QGIS</a> (using the GRASS-plugin).
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -319,20 +328,30 @@
 <h3>Known Issues</h3>
 
 <p>
-See <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Known_Issues">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Known_Issues</a>
+See the <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Known_Issues">WinGRASS
+Known Issues page on the GRASS wiki site</a>.
 </p>
 
 
+<a name="Uninstall_GRASS"></a>
+<h3>Uninstalling GRASS</h3>
 
+<table><tr>
+<td width="32" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/Uninstall_GRASS.png"></td>
+<td align="left">To uninstall GRASS click on this icon in the GRASS
+ Start Group menu and follow the instructions.</td>
+</tr></table>
+
+
 <a name="How_to_Submit_Bugs"></a>
 <h3>How to Submit Bugs</h3>
 
 <p>
-We would highly appreciate if you contributed to WinGRASS project by
-submitting bugs to
-<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/">http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/</a>
-or informing us about them through the Windows GRASS Mailing List
-(<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-windows">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-windows</a>).
+We would highly appreciate if you contributed to the WinGRASS project by
+<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/bugtracking/">submitting bug reports</a>
+or informing us about them through the
+<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-windows">Windows GRASS Mailing List</a>.
+Bugs only get fixed if we know about them!
 </p>
 
 
@@ -340,9 +359,9 @@
 <h3>Build GRASS From Source</h3>
 
 <p>
-If you want the latest development version of GRASS you must build it
-from source. This process has recently been greatly simplified for
-Windows environments, see
+If you want to work on the latest development version of GRASS you must
+build it from the source code. This process has recently been greatly
+simplified for Windows environments, see
  <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows">http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows</a>
 for instructions. 
 </p>
@@ -358,7 +377,7 @@
 
 <p>
 For more information, see 
-<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php">http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php</a>
+<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php">http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php</a>.
 </p>
 
 
@@ -366,19 +385,19 @@
 <h3>Credits and Contacts</h3>
 
 <p>
-WinGRASS project has been created and is currently developed by the
+The WinGRASS project has been created and is currently developed by the
 GRASS Development Team.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 The WinGRASS self-contained binary package (including all the builds
-and the installer script) was originally developed by Marco Pasetti
-(GRASS 6.3.0) and is now maintained by Colin Nielsen.
+and the installer script) was originally developed by Marco Pasetti for
+GRASS 6.3.0, and is now maintained by Colin Nielsen.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-To contact us, e-mail to: GRASS Development Mailing List
-(<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev</a>).
+To contact us send e-mail to the appropriate
+<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/support.php">mailing list</a>.
 </p>
 
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