[GRASS-user] newbie user

[Daniel Lee]

Hi Levente,

Welcome to the list :)

The questions you ask could be the subject of a GIS 1 course, especially
with GRASS. There are some good tutorials on getting started with GRASS -
check out here for example:
http://grass.fbk.eu/intro/firsttime.php

As to where you can get maps from... There are so many sources of
geographical data you'd have to specify a little bit more. To be honest,
though, if you're wanting to do the stuff that you describe manually, I
would actually be more inclined to point you toward QGIS. QGIS seems to be
easier to learn because its GUI is somewhat more... Graphical? ;) Plus, it
can connect to PostGIS (Postgres) *as well as* GRASS, so if you've got your
data in a GRASS database you can still access it from QGIS. Otherwise GRASS
does require a lot of understanding for regional settings, coordinate
systems, etc. - all learnable, but as an electrical engineer I would assume
it would be quite a bit of reading due to lacking background in that field
(which, of course, is understandable).

That said, the tutorial I linked is in pretty good, and GRASS is very
awesome, so if you think you'd rather work with it, more power to you. I'm
also a big fan.

Hope that helps!
Daniel

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2012/5/6 Levente Kovacs <leventelist at gmail.com>

> Dear Grass fellows,
>
>
> I am a new member of the list. I installed GRASS on my Debian box, and
> have no
> clue how to continue. Please forgive me my ignorance.
>
> With my father, as a family project, we develop a system, that sends
> coordinates to a postgresql database. So far, I have some date in the
> database.
>
> My goal would be to SELECT some data from the database, and display it on a
> map. Could anyone help me how to achieve this? (no, I don't want google
> maps).
>
> I am an electrical engineer, and have no clue how does this Geographic
> stuff
> work, so it would be nice to have some pointers in the documentation.
>
> * How can I load a map into GRASS?
> * BTW... where can I get a map from?
> * How can I (from software) put a point in a map?
> * How can I do some analyze stuff like distance from 2 points (on a GUI)
> * other stuff will come, like mesh, etc.
>
> Yes, I am prepared to read documents! I'm sorry if all these questions are
> stupid, but I think GRASS is what I look for.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> --
> Levente Kovacs
> CTO, CSO
> http://levente.logonex.eu
>
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