[GRASS-user] Grass Videos for FOSS4G

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I'm looking for content for the OSGeo booth at FOSS4G. Are there any
grass videos anyone can point me to that I could run along with other
content I have?

Thanks,
Tim Bowden
--
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
when you make it again.

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Tim Bowden wrote:

I'm looking for content for the OSGeo booth at FOSS4G.
Are there any grass videos anyone can point me to that I could
run along with other content I have?

there is of course the classic William Shatner narrated promo:
http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass_movie_video_CERL/grass_movie_CERL_1987.mov

"The GRASS Story [14 minutes, USACERL, 1987] The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory produced this
video to explain basic concepts and potential applications of geographic
information systems to land managers at Army installations." 61mb

21 years later the startup screen is much the same, although a bit less
CRT green. :wink: The comment at the site says there is little GRASS content
which delayed me from watching it. I don't think that's true.

also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZOQSn5tyqQ (GFOSS.it)
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Education_(Free_GIS_education)#Training_Videos

Hamish

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Thanks Hamish, slurping it now.

Regards,
Tim

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:29 -0700, Hamish wrote:

Tim Bowden wrote:
> I'm looking for content for the OSGeo booth at FOSS4G.
> Are there any grass videos anyone can point me to that I could
> run along with other content I have?

there is of course the classic William Shatner narrated promo:
http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass_movie_video_CERL/grass_movie_CERL_1987.mov

"The GRASS Story [14 minutes, USACERL, 1987] The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory produced this
video to explain basic concepts and potential applications of geographic
information systems to land managers at Army installations." 61mb

21 years later the startup screen is much the same, although a bit less
CRT green. :wink: The comment at the site says there is little GRASS content
which delayed me from watching it. I don't think that's true.

also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZOQSn5tyqQ (GFOSS.it)
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Education_(Free_GIS_education)#Training_Videos

Hamish

--
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
when you make it again.

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Hamish wrote:

Tim Bowden wrote:

I'm looking for content for the OSGeo booth at FOSS4G.
Are there any grass videos anyone can point me to that I could
run along with other content I have?

there is of course the classic William Shatner narrated promo:
http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass_movie_video_CERL/grass_movie_CERL_1987.mov

"The GRASS Story [14 minutes, USACERL, 1987] The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory produced this
video to explain basic concepts and potential applications of geographic
information systems to land managers at Army installations." 61mb

21 years later the startup screen is much the same, although a bit less
CRT green. :wink: The comment at the site says there is little GRASS content
which delayed me from watching it. I don't think that's true.

I agree - fascinating and astonishingly relevant I thought. I don't think I've watched through it all before. Enjoyed the clip of d.3d, and the graph of projected hardware costs into the early 90s! Particularly interesting for me though was the terminology used. He refers a lot to "layers" being overlaid to form a map, and lots of different layers within a "mapbase" as lots of different little parts of a map that can be combined in different ways to form a new map. Much like the terminology Martin was suggesting we start using for GRASS 7...

Paul