[GRASS5] Fw: Help for Grass project

[Mike Thomas]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Thomas" <miketh at brisbane.paradigmgeo.com>
To: <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
Cc: <ian_baxter at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: Help for Grass project


> [Resent due to bounce from previous send.]
>
> Hi Ian.
>
> I've CC'ed your questions to the Grass list in the hope that the experts
> will be able to give you more helpful answers than I am able.
>
> Grass list people - Ian has recently got Grass up and running under
Windows
> XP and needs some help to get up to speed using it on an interesting
project
> in Canada.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Ian Baxter (At Home) [mailto:ian_baxter at hotmail.com]
>
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 11:55 AM
>
> To: Mike Thomas
>
> Subject: Thanks....
>
>
>
> [Stuff deleted] ...
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> You may be able to point me to some resources though. My hurdles are thus:
>
> 1. How to import a raster image and georeference it properly.
>
> 2. How to cull out/seperate colored linework based on RGB values and save
to
>
> new raster files.
>
> 3. How to convert the raster data to linework and polygons and create
vector
>
> files from the result of #2
>
> 4. How to reproject it to the BC Albers projection I am using (grs80
>
> ellipsoid with Albers Equal Area projection....We span 3-4 UTM zones)
>
> 5. How to work with the attribute data - if it even exists (which I am
sure
>
> it does) in the coverages I have already imported.
>
> 6. How to link the spatial data with an SQL database and query/return the
>
> data
>
> 7. Then working with the dreaded DEM data I have, as well as seafloor
>
> topology to produce depths and height of land information, contours,
etc...
>
> I found some great hints in GRASS SEEDS, and I can see the commands I need
>
> to use. There just appears to be little information in any detailed form
>
> available for newbies. Although I have a great theoretical knowledge, I ha
ve
>
> so little hands on (except in CAD.) This may all change with my access to
>
> the GRASS bibliography though. I still have yet to start seriously digging
>
> into the raster capabilities of GRASS - and I know these are considerable.
>
> Then there's the question of scripting....
>
> I'm almost tempted to buy a book. If there's any good ones, please let me
>
> know...
>
> I also have a ton of data that I can't release in terms of logging
cutblock
>
> locations, boundaries, logging roads and trails that I want to integrate.
>
> Then there's the fish observations and stocking locations to integrate...
>
> Then there's our watershed atlas with stream flow models and
>
> obstructions/features.
>
> Then I build the web query front end and get to make it all work from
Apache
>
> running under Windows XP.
>
> All this just so I can find a good flyfishing spot for rainbow trout.
Well,
>
> and maybe make a buck or two (if I can...)
>
>