<html style="direction: ltr;">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<style>body p { margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; } </style>
</head>
<body style="direction: ltr;"
bidimailui-detected-decoding-type="UTF-8" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
text="#000000">
On 06/05/2012 21:12, Levente Kovacs wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:20120506201256.4d88265a@jive.levalinux.org"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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.
</pre>
</blockquote>
Welcome.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:20120506201256.4d88265a@jive.levalinux.org"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
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).
</pre>
</blockquote>
While I enjoy working with GRASS, in your case it might be "using a
5 kg. hammer to push in a tack". If you only need to create a point
layer from X-Y locations there are several easier to use tools. Did
you consider QGIS?<br>
If you find further on that you need the advanced analysis
capabilities of GRASS, then QGIS has a GRASS plugin to get you
started. <br>
<blockquote cite="mid:20120506201256.4d88265a@jive.levalinux.org"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
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.</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:20120506201256.4d88265a@jive.levalinux.org"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
* 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.
</pre>
</blockquote>
You'd certainly do well to start with the GRASS documentation:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Help">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Help</a><br>
<blockquote cite="mid:20120506201256.4d88265a@jive.levalinux.org"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
Thank you for your help.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p><br>
</p>
</body>
</html>