[GRASS-user] [Fwd: update of the training manual]

[Benjamin Ducke]

QGIS started as a simple viewer for geodata. And that's really what it
still is: a simple-to-use geodata viewer with some editing capabilities.
That's what it was designed to be and that's what it can do really well.
QGIS does not have built-in capabilities for geodata processing and
analysis.

However, a while back, Radim Blazek, who was then a core developer of
the GRASS 6 system, decided to write a plugin for QGIS that would make
it possible to access GRASS functionality from within the QGIS GUI.

And that's what you get today, when you download a binary version of
QGIS for your platform: QGIS + GRASS 6 plus a plugin that makes using
GRASS from QGIS simple and fun.

And that's why you have the "overlap" ...

Hope this clears the fog,

best,

Benjamin

Gerald Nelson wrote:
> Is there some place on the web that discusses the differences between QGIS and Grass? I haven't done any extensive research on this but it appears that QGIS is more about display and a GUI, and perhaps windows compatibility. There seems to be a lot of overlap in functionality. My guess is that there are many relatively new users of open source GIS software that would like some discussion on why the two.
> 
> Thanks, Jerry
> 
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:25:49 +0100 (CET)
>> From: "Moritz Lennert" <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>  
>> Subject: [GRASS-user] [Fwd: update of the training manual]  
>> To: grassuser at grass.itc.it
>>
>> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
>> Subject: update of the training manual
>> From:    "Yann Chemin" <ychemin at gmail.com>
>> Date:    Sat, December 16, 2006 06:52
>> To:      "Natalya Medvedyeva" <natmead at gmail.com>
>>         "Moritz Lennert" <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have upgraded the training manual (correction from Maris and R2V +
>> shapefile export).
>>
>> Works flawlessly on grass6.3cvs in linux (check the script), looking
>> forward to a new windows version readily installable...
>>
>> http://rslultra.star.ait.ac.th/~yann/star/GMS_training.pdf
>> http://rslultra.star.ait.ac.th/~yann/star/GMS_training.odt
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Yann
>>
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Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
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