[Qgis-user] qgis vs grass

[Jake Maier]

Thanks Noli,
That was exactly the advice I was hoping for.
I write forest management plan, and work with some biologists on Natural
Resources Inventories. I provide the mapping with a bit forestry consulting
as a sideline.
So I want to show drainage maps  or vegetation maps (airphotos or topomaps
overlain with different shaded polygons).
One important future goal is to show particular stands depending on
information in the database. I also was hoping grass may provide better ways
to calculate area. I need English system, acres. I think that is not
provided in QGIS.

Jake

-----Original Message-----
From: Noli Sicad [mailto:nsicad at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:06 PM
To: Jake Maier
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] qgis vs grass

Hi Jake,

If you are just new to QGIS, just use QGIS without Grass plug-in first.
Familiarize yourself with QGIS. Download and read QGIS manual.
You can always install the Grass plug-in later.

If you used ArcMap before and  not ArcInfo, mostly like to you don't need
Grass at the moment. Most of QGIS users (including me) have a little use of
Grass until you want advance Geoprocessing which can not do in QGIS.

BTW, sort of things you want to use QGIS for forestry application.

( BTW,I am trying to use QGIS for forest management and Spatial forest
estate modelling.)

Noli

On 3/11/12, Jake Maier <j.m at jmforestry.com> wrote:
> I'm new to qgis. I used ArcMap before so I have some GIS experience.  
> I have the grass plug-in installed. Should I try to setup the grass 
> database right away and try to do everything within grass or should I 
> first use just qgis without Grass until I get more familiar with it.
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> Any pointers are very welcome.
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> Thanks in advance
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> Jake
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