[GRASSLIST:912] Re: [GRASS5] Re: Re: Looking for Good No Brainer Doc for Grass!

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Wed Apr 26 14:57:31 EDT 2006


On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:52:04PM +0200, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
> paul raymond <kabobofpug at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >       I  loaded Grass 6.0 & have been able to start the application
> > with no  problem at all. I am looking for some good docs to walk me
> > thru the  basic "detail" process of using it.
> 
> http://grass.itc.it/gdp/tutorials.php
> 
> 
> > So far, I have not
> > found anything  on the internet that would help me. Is this book any
> > good, "Open Source GIS   A GRASS GIS Approach"?
> 
> Very good for up to Grass 5.4. For >= 5.7 plenty has changed in regard
> to vectors and DBM. 3D raster took plenty of developemenet. Also data
> display management has improved significantly, but mostly will remains
> the same. As to raster operations the book will be pretty up to date.
>

Here are the updates to use the book with GRASS 6:
http://mpa.itc.it/grasstutor/grass6/

And yes, we are working on the 3rd edition with substantial updates...

cheers

 Markus




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