GRASS Help

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

• GRASS 6 Terminology

• Basic GIS concepts and how GRASS implements them

• Five minute program launch tutorial by Lorenzo Moretti

First few slides are geared for Mac OSX, the rest is generic.

• GRASS Quickstart help page

• Importing data: how to get your data into GRASS

• GRASS help pages including basic introductions

Short tutorials

• A quick introduction to the 6.4 wxGUI and raster maps

• How-To Test GRASS6 - easy to replicate steps with GRASS 6.3+ and QGIS

• Simple Visual Tutorial for GRASS 6.0 by L. Moretti (for non-UNIX people, GUI)

• Short courses from the International Rice Research Institute (GRASS Tcl/Tk GIS.m GUI, QGIS (incl. GRASS plugin), and R statistics)

• GRASS 6 in a nutshell by M. Neteler (2005, short tutorial, also translated to Spanish and French)

• The GRASS 6 Tutorial (a work in progress; seeking for volunteers)

• 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]

• Global datasets

• More sample data

Further Reading

• Full GRASS Documentation

• 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]

• GRASS and its siblings; a guide for the novice

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

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• Wiki Help (how to edit pages after registration)