Hello GRASS users
As I’m new to GRASS and new to this list, allow me to introduce myself. I’m a part-time GIS post-grad student in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
GRASS doesn’t seem to be widely used in this country. If there’s anyone from NZ on this list I’d love to hear from them. University courses are based around ARC, although some opensource programmes were used in my last course.
One of my main interests in GIS is exploring the potential of GIS for community groups, NGOs and activist groups. This inevitably leads using open source software like GRASS.
I’m planning to blog about my experiences, first installing and learning to use GRASS and other opensource and free to use software, and then exploring how these might be useful for community groups. I hope that this record of my experiences might be useful to others starting out using opensource GIS.
I’d also be happy to contribute to the GDP - GRASS Documentation Project. My own experiences as someone completely new to GRASS could feed in to the tutorial and help pages. And I could also help with “reading existing doc in order to weed out completely outdated stuff”.
But first I need to install GRASS on my laptop. And that’s where I’ve encountered my first problem! I hope someone on this list can help.
I’m using a Presario CQ64, which has an Athlon 64 processor (which could be part of the problem). The current OS is Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
I’ve followed the instructions on the Ubuntugis page. According to the Ubuntu Software Centre, GRASS is installed, and files are indeed present on my HD. I just can’t find a way to open the programme!
[I should say that I’m also very new to Linux.] I expected there to be a GRASS icon that I click to open it, but can’t find anything like that. Do I have to use command line? Or has something gone wrong?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers
David
welcome david,
What do you mean you can't open the program? You can't run it? Or you
can run but you are having trouble setting up the location and mapset?
Anyway, I'm not sure Ubuntu Gis will put a item on your menu so what
happens if you open a terminal and type grass
Do you see anything?
cheers
Daniel
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:20 PM, David Colyer <colyer@pl.net> wrote:
Hello GRASS users
As I’m new to GRASS and new to this list, allow me to introduce myself. I’m
a part-time GIS post-grad student in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
GRASS doesn’t seem to be widely used in this country. If there’s anyone from
NZ on this list I’d love to hear from them. University courses are based
around ARC, although some opensource programmes were used in my last course.
One of my main interests in GIS is exploring the potential of GIS for
community groups, NGOs and activist groups. This inevitably leads using open
source software like GRASS.
I’m planning to blog about my experiences, first installing and learning to
use GRASS and other opensource and free to use software, and then exploring
how these might be useful for community groups. I hope that this record of
my experiences might be useful to others starting out using opensource GIS.
I’d also be happy to contribute to the GDP - GRASS Documentation Project. My
own experiences as someone completely new to GRASS could feed in to the
tutorial and help pages. And I could also help with “reading existing doc in
order to weed out completely outdated stuff”.
But first I need to install GRASS on my laptop. And that’s where I’ve
encountered my first problem! I hope someone on this list can help.
I’m using a Presario CQ64, which has an Athlon 64 processor (which could be
part of the problem). The current OS is Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
I’ve followed the instructions on the Ubuntugis page. According to the
Ubuntu Software Centre, GRASS is installed, and files are indeed present on
my HD. I just can’t find a way to open the programme!
[I should say that I’m also very new to Linux.] I expected there to be a
GRASS icon that I click to open it, but can’t find anything like that. Do I
have to use command line? Or has something gone wrong?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers
David
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Kia ora David,
Fire up a terminal, and type grass, then enter. This is launching
Grass, and a GUI will show up. You will then have to specify a path to
store your GRASS data, and define a location (ie a coordinate system +
a geographic extent) for your first project.
One of the great feature of GRASS is to be usable from the terminal
and from its graphical interface.
Welcome aboard,
Pierre (from Palmerston North, NZ)
2011/5/27 David Colyer <colyer@pl.net>:
Hello GRASS users
As I’m new to GRASS and new to this list, allow me to introduce myself. I’m
a part-time GIS post-grad student in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
GRASS doesn’t seem to be widely used in this country. If there’s anyone from
NZ on this list I’d love to hear from them. University courses are based
around ARC, although some opensource programmes were used in my last course.
One of my main interests in GIS is exploring the potential of GIS for
community groups, NGOs and activist groups. This inevitably leads using open
source software like GRASS.
I’m planning to blog about my experiences, first installing and learning to
use GRASS and other opensource and free to use software, and then exploring
how these might be useful for community groups. I hope that this record of
my experiences might be useful to others starting out using opensource GIS.
I’d also be happy to contribute to the GDP - GRASS Documentation Project. My
own experiences as someone completely new to GRASS could feed in to the
tutorial and help pages. And I could also help with “reading existing doc in
order to weed out completely outdated stuff”.
But first I need to install GRASS on my laptop. And that’s where I’ve
encountered my first problem! I hope someone on this list can help.
I’m using a Presario CQ64, which has an Athlon 64 processor (which could be
part of the problem). The current OS is Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
I’ve followed the instructions on the Ubuntugis page. According to the
Ubuntu Software Centre, GRASS is installed, and files are indeed present on
my HD. I just can’t find a way to open the programme!
[I should say that I’m also very new to Linux.] I expected there to be a
GRASS icon that I click to open it, but can’t find anything like that. Do I
have to use command line? Or has something gone wrong?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers
David
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Daniel wrote:
Anyway, I'm not sure Ubuntu Gis will put a item on your
menu so what happens if you open a terminal and type grass
Do you see anything?
that should work.
if you create a custom launcher for it, the critical thing to
remember is that you do need to tick the "Run in Terminal"
button. Otherwise it fails weirdly.
afaik UbuntuGIS just uses DebianGIS's package, and although I
added a grass.desktop menu file there ages ago apparently I
still haven't set it to copy into the /usr/share/applications/
dir yet. Similar for the WMaker style grass.menu file.
I'll get to that asap.
cheers,
Hamish
(Otago)
Thanks to everyone who responded.
Yes typing “grass” in terminal did the trick and GRASS is now up and running. Haven’t tried to do anything with it yet, that’s the next task.
I would like to get an icon on in a menu or desk top, but it sounds like people have done this so I’ll see if I can work it out.
It’s exciting to hear from some people here in NZ. I’m currently in Auckland myself.
Thanks again.
David