[GRASS-user] 1-page grass overview

[Michael Barton]

Hamish,

The quick startup has the instruction for switching to the TclTk GUI as g.gui -ui. I think that should be g.gui gui=tcltk -ui

Otherwise it looks good. The one-page overview is great.

Michael

On Aug 5, 2010, at 12:46 AM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:29:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] 1-page grass overview
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hi,
> 
> for the upcoming FOSS4G conference[1] we have put together a live
> dvd[2] with GRASS and a whole bunch of other OSGeo software,
> about 40 FOSS geo projects are participating in all.
> 
> It would be great if folks could read through the 1-page overview
> doc[3] for GRASS (made with reStructured Text and Sphinx if you
> wondered), and the 5 minute quickstart tutorial[4].
> 
> A full list of project docs on the disc is interesting to look
> through as well.[5]
> 
> Also if anyone is really keen they can download an ISO of the
> DVD[6] and test that it actually works. I've already discovered
> that the new QGIS 1.5 grass plugin doesn't like the user not
> owning the PERMANENT mapset, even if it's not the one being used.
> 
> Test results to the OSGeo wiki[7] and bugs to the osgeo bug
> trac'er[8] please (including doc bugs; set component as LiveDVD).
> 
> 
> it goes to the printers next week.
> 
> 
> [1] http://2010.foss4g.org
> 
> [2] http://live.osgeo.org
> 
> [3] http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc6/osgeolive-docs/overview/grass_overview.html
> 
> [4] http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc6/osgeolive-docs/quickstart/grass_quickstart.html
> 
> [5] http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc6/osgeolive-docs/overview/overview.html
> 
> [6] http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc6/
> 
> [7] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing
> 
> [8] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10
> 
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Hamish
> 
>