[GRASSLIST:6357] Re: GRASS-DOC list inactive?

[Maciek Sieczka]

Kevin

There are some sample datasets on the Grass website in dwonload section,
but if it is not much help for you I'm affraid you want find anymore.

What I may advice is to get familiar with papers from
http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/conferences/GRASS2002/home.html
http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/
so you could get some information on how and in what fileds Grass could be
used.

Also check out the "newsletter" on Grass site.

> If not, can someone recommend a general GIS learning resource for
> someone relatively unfamiliar with it?  I'd be very grateful.

If I may pretend a wise guy here - GIS is not something one can learn from a
book. GIS is a system, a framework for your enterprise. And depending on
your goal it will be different. GIS is not the same for a geographer,
archeologist and biologist. Also, it is always very different in each
particular application - say ArcInfo or Grass. But if you need some general
guiding for begining I bet the "GRASS GIS Approach" will be a much use
for you. And for real learning - give yourself a task which could helped by
means of GIS and try to accomplish it. You'll learn a tone :).

Cherio
Maciek

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin" <lists at gnosysllc.com>
To: <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
Cc: <grass-doc at it-zone.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:19 PM
Subject: [GRASSLIST:6352] GRASS-DOC list inactive?


> Hi List-
>
> I'm new to grass and have a couple of questions that I don't see
> answered in the archive.
>
> 1) Is the grass-doc list down or inactive?  I saw a request for
> volunteers at http://grass.itc.it/gdp/index.php and joined the list but
> haven't seen any activity and the archives show the last activity in
> 2003 I believe.
>
> 2) I just ordered M. Neteler, H. Mitasova, 2004. Open Source GIS: A
> GRASS GIS Approach. Second Edition because I'm sure the book will be a
> great resource for a newbie like me, but my question about it is this:
> can I expect to find examples and tutorials that hold my hand
> step-by-step in performing some number of the things that grass can do?
>
> I tried the online documentation and tutorials (everything that one can
> get to from the grass web pages) and although I'm sure they would be
> very helpful for someone well-versed in GIS software in general (not yet
> true for me), I was totally bewildered by them.  I have grass installed
> and running with no problems.  I just don't know what to do with it or
> how to do it.  I tried just fiddling around with it hoping that by doing
> so, it would become clear what this and that are for, but it wasn't
> helpful to me (just dense I guess).  I think I need data sets and
> examples that tell me exactly what to do (step by step) in order to
> accomplish this or that and then perhaps even some sort of conceptual
> explanation of what this is good for.  Will the book help me with that?
>
> TIA.
>
>
> -- 
> -Kevin
> http://www.gnosys.us
>
>