[GRASS-user] getting started

[Huub Munstege]

Ha Russel,

A few weeks ago I was in a similar position. Reading of good manuals (like: http://grass.itc.it/gdp/manuals.php / and other nice material on http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/grass/) and some perseverance will do the trick. You will discover that GRASS together with QGIS are at least as functional as expensive ESRI products. To help you quickly further (which will hopefully fuel your motivation) you might follow the next steps:
Create a new location in a directory where you have write permission. In your situation it is recommendable to define it through EPSG code (NAD 83 - UTM zone 10 is code 26910) or you point at a georeferenced file of your location. 
After successful creation of your location you can enter Grass again and you will find your location. You might consider creating mapsets if you prefer to seperate basic data from files you create/edit yourself 
Next you can import your raster file using the gis-manager (=>File =>Import => Raster Map => Multiple Formats using GDAL).But once again: the above mentioned manuals will be your friend 

To other GRASS users of this list: thanks for the interesting mails; many of them (and Google....) have helped me out. My goal is to promote OS software in development work. I have used GRASS to process SRTM data for hydrological analyses. Hopefully we will publish our results in the coming months with Mapserver on the web. 
 
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Huub Munstege
PRODEPAM
Badalabougou-Est
Bamako 
Mali
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----- Original Message ----
From: Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com>
To: grassuser at grass.itc.it
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:17:13 PM
Subject: [GRASS-user] getting started


I'm a GRASS newbie.  I want to generate some maps on top of usgs color
orthoimagery (as nad83 utm zone 10n geotiffs), using wgs84 decimal
lat/long point data.  When I start up GRASS I am immediately faced
with questions I don't know the answers to, the whole
mapset/location/bounding box/datum/something-about-raster-pitch/etc.

Can someone help me get started?


-- 
Russell Senior         ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.''
seniorr at aracnet.com

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