[GRASSLIST:612] Re: Absolute beginner

[Glynn Clements]

Thomas Zastrow wrote:

> 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?

If you just want to make maps, you would probably be better off with
GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/

GRASS is primarily an analysis package, designed for performing
computations on geographic data.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>