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Start GRASS
Start GRASS


   $ grass62 -text spearfish60/PERMANENT
   $ grass -text spearfish60/PERMANENT


= Obtaining Data =
= Obtaining Data =


http://www.gis.psu.edu/
http://www.gis.psu.edu/

Revision as of 11:20, 7 July 2007

This tutorial describes how to

  • find free data of country on Internet
  • create new GRASS location
  • import found data into GRASS
  • create new vector layers from existing data
  • create labels
  • display map of a country

GRASS Installation

Required elements

Create directory structure required for this tutorial

  • dataset directory
  $ mkdir ~/grass
  • input data directory
  $ mkdir ~/grass/indata

Create GRASS location using SPEARFISH data to be able create new locations

  $ cd ~/grass
  $ tar zxf spearfish_grass60data-0.3.tar.gz

Start GRASS

  $ grass -text spearfish60/PERMANENT

Obtaining Data

http://www.gis.psu.edu/