[GRASSLIST:601] Absolute beginner

[Thomas Zastrow]

Dear list,

I'm an absolute beginner to the field of GIS-Software, but I have a task 
which seems to be solveable with a GIS-software :-)

I'm working in a linguistic project which deals with dialects. So, we 
have a land - in this case bulgaria - with villages, cities and so on. 
I've got long- and lattitude-values for each of this locations. Now I 
need a software which I can tell "Make a point in blue color at this 
coordinates".

I think that GIS-Software is the right thing for me? Can I do that with 
GRASS?? I'm honest, I downloaded and installed GRASS, read some 
tutorials, but I don't know where I can get bulgarian maps and how to 
import them and so on ...

Perhaps you can give me some tips?

Thanks a lot,

Tom

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Thomas Zastrow
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Tuebingen
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/dialectometry/