GRASS Help
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Getting Started
Most tutorials and examples will use the Spearfish County, SD sample dataset. New examples are also based on the rich OSGeo Educational Dataset (North Carolina, USA)
Installation
- Covered in the Installation Guide
Frequently Asked Questions
- FAQ
- You can contact GRASS users in IRC
- How the Open Source software development model works
First Day Documentation
- Basic GIS concepts and how GRASS implements them
- GRASS Quickstart help page
- Importing data: how to get your data into GRASS
- GRASS help pages including basic introductions
Short tutorials
- Course material of Introduction to GRASS GIS, Geostat 2011, Landau, Germany, by M. Neteler and M. Metz
- How-To Test GRASS6 - easy to replicate steps with GRASS 6.3+ and QGIS
- The GRASS 6 Tutorial (a work in progress; seeking for volunteers)
- GRASS 6 in a nutshell by M. Neteler (2005, short tutorial, also translated to Spanish and French)
- An introduction to the practical use of the Free Geographical Information System GRASS 6.0 by GDF Hannover - More tutorials from GDF Hannover
Textbook
- Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach. 3rd ed. 2008 by M. Neteler and H. Mitasova (Springer book; focus is on GRASS 6.3)
Individual modules
- Synopsis of GRASS modules, including menu positions (PDF, 100k) (HTML version)
- Create current list with "make html2pdfdoc" or "cd tools; ./module_synopsis.sh" in GRASS 6.3+
- Individual GRASS module reference manuals
- All GRASS module reference manuals (PDF Book)
- Create current set with "make html2pdfdoccomplete" in GRASS 6.3+
Sample Datasets
- North Carolina, USA (OSGeo Edu dataset) - rich data set prepared in 2007/2008
- Spearfish County, SD, USA (not so far from Mount Rushmore) with extra data
- Mount Rushmore: [43°53' N, 103°28' W]
Further Reading
- Teaching materials contributed by the community.
(Tutorials, courseware, training videos, etc.)
- More GRASS documentation and tutorials from the old GRASS Documentation Project.
[content is slowly being merged into this Wiki]
Migration from other GIS Software
- GRASS migration hints
- GIS Software to GRASS command translation table and discussion
- Tips for Arc users
Interfacing with external software
- QGIS frontend
- R statistics interface
- GMT mapping cartography
- MapServer web server
- External databases (db.connect)
- External raster data (r.external)
- External vector data (v.external)
- Paraview 3D visualization (r.out.vtk, r3.out.vtk, v.out.vtk)
- POVray 3D visualization (r.out.pov, v.out.pov)
- OpenSceneGraph 3D visualization
- GRASS vector export to Inkscape
Misc. Help
- GRASS FAQ (see also: GRASS 6 Tutorial)
- Tips and Tricks
- Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin
- How to interpolate point value using kriging method with R and GRASS 6
- Wiki Help (how to edit pages after registration)