GRASS Help

Getting Started

Installation

• Covered in the Installation Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

• FAQ
• You can contact GRASS users in IRC

First Day Documentation

• "GRASS Quickstart" by M. Neteler (in the GRASS help pages)

• "Visual Tutorial for GRASS 6" by L. Moretti (for non-UNIX people, GUI)

• Basic GIS concepts and how GRASS implements them

• "GRASS 6 in a nutshell" by M. Neteler (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

• "Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach. 2nd ed." by M. Neteler and H. Mitasova
  (Book; focus is on GRASS 5, but all chapters still valid except vector/sites for that read the updates page)

• GRASS module reference manuals

• More GRASS documentation and tutorials

Sample Dataset

• Spearfish County, SD, USA (not so far from Mount Rushmore) with extra data
• More sample data

Migration from other GIS Software

• GRASS migration hints
• GIS Software to GRASS command translation table and discussion

Interfacing with external software

• QGIS frontend
• R statistics interface
• GMT mapping cartography
• MapServer web server
• External databases (db.connect)
• 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)

Further Reading

• Full GRASS Documentation

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
• GRASS vector export to Inkscape

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