[GRASS5] GRASS-News No 3

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Dear GRASS user community,

the GRASS-News staff is happy to announce the third volume of GRASS-News.

It features articles covering SRTM data processing, GRASS-R interface,
knowledge modelling, QGIS and informations concerning GRASS News and Events!

It can be fetched from the Newsletter homepage:

http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php

or directly from:
http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol3.pdf (1 MB)

Enjoy the reading and we are looking forward to your submission for volume 4.

kind regards, the GRASS-News staff

--
Martin Wegmann

DLR - German Aerospace Center
German Remote Sensing Data Center
@
Dept.of Geography
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Unit
University of Wuerzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

phone: +49-(0)931 - 888 4797
fax: +49-(0)931 - 888 4961
http://www.biota-africa.org
http://www.biogis.de

2

I had troubles replicating the commands for the installation of spgrass6
following the instructions in the excellent paper by Roger Bivand.
On a Debian testing box, the full sequence is:
su
apt-get install libgdal-dev
R
install.packages(c("sp","rgdal"), dependencies=TRUE,
repos="http://microarrays.unife.it/CRAN/"\)
rS <- "http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/R&quot;
install.packages("spgrass6", repos=rS, dependencies=TRUE)
install.packages("spGDAL", repos=rS, dependencies=TRUE)

Of course you should replace the mirror (http://microarrays.unife.it/CRAN/)
with one closer to you (list on: http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html).

More generally, I think GRASS News should not be a dead document: people will
refer to it for months, maybe years, and it would be useful either modifying
the text or to put an addendum at the end of it.

Many thanks.
pc

At 11:26, giovedì 09 giugno 2005, Martin Wegmann has probably written:

Dear GRASS user community,

the GRASS-News staff is happy to announce the third volume of GRASS-News.

It features articles covering SRTM data processing, GRASS-R interface,
knowledge modelling, QGIS and informations concerning GRASS News and
Events!

It can be fetched from the Newsletter homepage:

http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php

or directly from:
http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol3.pdf (1 MB)

Enjoy the reading and we are looking forward to your submission for volume
4.

kind regards, the GRASS-News staff

--
Paolo Cavallini
cavallini@faunalia.it www.faunalia.it www.faunalia.com
Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel: (+39)348-3801953

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Hello Paolo,

thanks for pointing this out - of course GRASS-News should not be a dead
document. I will fix my Latex documents and put a fresh pdf back on the
server.

thanks, Martin

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 07:23, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

I had troubles replicating the commands for the installation of spgrass6
following the instructions in the excellent paper by Roger Bivand.
On a Debian testing box, the full sequence is:
su
apt-get install libgdal-dev
R
install.packages(c("sp","rgdal"), dependencies=TRUE,
repos="http://microarrays.unife.it/CRAN/&quot;\)
rS <- "http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/R&quot;
install.packages("spgrass6", repos=rS, dependencies=TRUE)
install.packages("spGDAL", repos=rS, dependencies=TRUE)

Of course you should replace the mirror (http://microarrays.unife.it/CRAN/)
with one closer to you (list on: http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html).

More generally, I think GRASS News should not be a dead document: people
will refer to it for months, maybe years, and it would be useful either
modifying the text or to put an addendum at the end of it.

Many thanks.
pc

At 11:26, giovedì 09 giugno 2005, Martin Wegmann has probably written:
> Dear GRASS user community,
>
> the GRASS-News staff is happy to announce the third volume of GRASS-News.
>
> It features articles covering SRTM data processing, GRASS-R interface,
> knowledge modelling, QGIS and informations concerning GRASS News and
> Events!
>
> It can be fetched from the Newsletter homepage:
>
> http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php
>
> or directly from:
> http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol3.pdf (1 MB)
>
> Enjoy the reading and we are looking forward to your submission for
> volume 4.
>
> kind regards, the GRASS-News staff

--
Martin Wegmann

DLR - German Aerospace Center
German Remote Sensing Data Center
@
Dept.of Geography
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Unit
University of Wuerzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

phone: +49-(0)931 - 888 4797
fax: +49-(0)931 - 888 4961
http://www.biota-africa.org
http://www.biogis.de

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Dear GRASS user,

an erratum has been set up and is available as pdf from the Newsletter webpage
for the respective newsletter.

I you have further annotations please send me the text/commands and I will
merge it with the existing Latex document (if you have csv access please feel
free to modify the erratum.tex file yourself and upload the new pdf to the
GRASS-News page).

regards, Martin

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:22, Martin Wegmann wrote:

Hello Paolo,

thanks for pointing this out - of course GRASS-News should not be a dead
document. I will fix my Latex documents and put a fresh pdf back on the
server.

thanks, Martin

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 07:23, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> I had troubles replicating the commands for the installation of spgrass6
> following the instructions in the excellent paper by Roger Bivand.
> On a Debian testing box, the full sequence is:
> su
> apt-get install libgdal-dev
> R
> install.packages(c("sp","rgdal"), dependencies=TRUE,
> repos="http://microarrays.unife.it/CRAN/&quot;\)
> rS <- "http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/R&quot;
> install.packages("spgrass6", repos=rS, dependencies=TRUE)
> install.packages("spGDAL", repos=rS, dependencies=TRUE)
>
> Of course you should replace the mirror
> (http://microarrays.unife.it/CRAN/) with one closer to you (list on:
> http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html).
>
> More generally, I think GRASS News should not be a dead document: people
> will refer to it for months, maybe years, and it would be useful either
> modifying the text or to put an addendum at the end of it.
>
> Many thanks.
> pc
>
> At 11:26, giovedì 09 giugno 2005, Martin Wegmann has probably written:
> > Dear GRASS user community,
> >
> > the GRASS-News staff is happy to announce the third volume of
> > GRASS-News.
> >
> > It features articles covering SRTM data processing, GRASS-R interface,
> > knowledge modelling, QGIS and informations concerning GRASS News and
> > Events!
> >
> > It can be fetched from the Newsletter homepage:
> >
> > http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php
> >
> > or directly from:
> > http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol3.pdf (1 MB)
> >
> > Enjoy the reading and we are looking forward to your submission for
> > volume 4.
> >
> > kind regards, the GRASS-News staff

--
Martin Wegmann

DLR - German Aerospace Center
German Remote Sensing Data Center
@
Dept.of Geography
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Unit
University of Wuerzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

phone: +49-(0)931 - 888 4797
fax: +49-(0)931 - 888 4961
http://www.biota-africa.org
http://www.biogis.de

5

Sure wish GRASS-News was HTML, in addition to PDF.
See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010610.html
(I even thought I could get that two-column stuff into my PDA for
offline browsing with pdftotext. Result: mashed.)
So, also offer a HTML version too!
Maybe then we modem users could (not get the graphics and therefore)
read it (with not too much phone cost.)
I mean if the input is LaTeX, then you can also make a latex2html copy
just as easy... Or at least offer the LaTeX source too (images
separate) [else won't be Open Source]...

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Sure wish GRASS-News was HTML, in addition to PDF.
See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010610.html
(I even thought I could get that two-column stuff into my PDA for
offline browsing with pdftotext. Result: mashed.)
So, also offer a HTML version too!
Maybe then we modem users could (not get the graphics and therefore)
read it (with not too much phone cost.)
I mean if the input is LaTeX, then you can also make a latex2html copy
just as easy... Or at least offer the LaTeX source too (images
separate) [else won't be Open Source]...

The LaTeX source is there: download it from CVS and, as you note, use
latex2html (from the [non-free] Debian latex2html package e.g.) if you
want.

http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/newsletter/

Or download the PDF and use a printer.

Hamish

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On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:49:00PM +1200, Hamish wrote:

> Sure wish GRASS-News was HTML, in addition to PDF.
> See Avoid PDF for On-Screen Reading - NN/g
> (I even thought I could get that two-column stuff into my PDA for
> offline browsing with pdftotext. Result: mashed.)
> So, also offer a HTML version too!
> Maybe then we modem users could (not get the graphics and therefore)
> read it (with not too much phone cost.)
> I mean if the input is LaTeX, then you can also make a latex2html copy
> just as easy... Or at least offer the LaTeX source too (images
> separate) [else won't be Open Source]...

The LaTeX source is there: download it from CVS and, as you note, use
latex2html (from the [non-free] Debian latex2html package e.g.) if you
want.

FreeGIS.org

I have added this link as well as table of contents and
bibtex files:

http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php

Markus

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Well, I'm back from my query into how to just read the text parts of
the newsletter for modem users who are used to e.g., getting .html
without images.

"T" == Thomas Arendsen Hein <... intevation.de> writes:

T> * Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> [20050623 22:00]:

>> $ wget --spider -Y off -S http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol3/GRASSnews_vol3.tex 'http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol3/GRASSNews_vol3.tar.gz?tarball=1’
[Failed, server doesn't support HEAD]
I was trying to get some idea of how big they were before I download.
Perhaps you can tell me.

T> The first one is not the real file, but the changelog.

T> The tarball from the second link will be 6.5 MB.

So we see however one looks at it, it will be megabytes before one can
get his hands on any text.

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hello Dan,

you can get the latex source from the cvs repository, please feel free to grap
it. However due to the Latex commands it will be cumbersome to read.
The actual articles can be found in Bivand.tex, Bowman_srtm.tex etc.
I can send you the tex files (without images), they would be around 200 Kb.

I would be very happy if you give latextohtml (as Hamish proposed) or
hyperlatex a try. I tried it but had no luck with an appropriate html output
yet.

Martin

On Sunday 26 June 2005 02:18, you wrote:

Well, I'm back from my query into how to just read the text parts of
the newsletter for modem users who are used to e.g., getting .html
without images.

>>>>> "T" == Thomas Arendsen Hein <... intevation.de> writes:

T> * Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> [20050623 22:00]:
>> >> $ wget --spider -Y off -S
>> >> http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol3/GRAS
>> >>Snews_vol3.tex
>> >> 'http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol3/GRA
>> >>SSNews_vol3.tar.gz?tarball=1'
>>
>> [Failed, server doesn't support HEAD]
>> I was trying to get some idea of how big they were before I download.
>> Perhaps you can tell me.

T> The first one is not the real file, but the changelog.

T> The tarball from the second link will be 6.5 MB.

So we see however one looks at it, it will be megabytes before one can
get his hands on any text.

--
Martin Wegmann

DLR - German Aerospace Center
German Remote Sensing Data Center
@
Dept.of Geography
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Unit
University of Wuerzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

phone: +49-(0)931 - 888 4797
fax: +49-(0)931 - 888 4961
http://www.biota-africa.org
http://www.biogis.de

10

Hi,

I have added a 'html' target into the Vol3 Newsletter Makefile.
Running

make html

will run 'latex2html' (must be installed of course) and creates
the newsletter in HTML. Some fine tuning might be needed, though.

I have also added an 'ascii' target into the Vol3 Newsletter Makefile.
Running

make ascii

will run 'detex' (modify to use your preferred software) to extract
ASCII text from the original Latex files.

Cheers

Markus

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:55:32AM +0200, Martin Wegmann wrote:

hello Dan,

you can get the latex source from the cvs repository, please feel free to grap
it. However due to the Latex commands it will be cumbersome to read.
The actual articles can be found in Bivand.tex, Bowman_srtm.tex etc.
I can send you the tex files (without images), they would be around 200 Kb.

I would be very happy if you give latextohtml (as Hamish proposed) or
hyperlatex a try. I tried it but had no luck with an appropriate html output
yet.

Martin

On Sunday 26 June 2005 02:18, you wrote:
> Well, I'm back from my query into how to just read the text parts of
> the newsletter for modem users who are used to e.g., getting .html
> without images.
>
> >>>>> "T" == Thomas Arendsen Hein <... intevation.de> writes:
>
> T> * Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> [20050623 22:00]:
> >> >> $ wget --spider -Y off -S
> >> >> FreeGIS.org
> >> >>Snews_vol3.tex
> >> >> 'FreeGIS.org
> >> >>SSNews_vol3.tar.gz?tarball=1'
> >>
> >> [Failed, server doesn't support HEAD]
> >> I was trying to get some idea of how big they were before I download.
> >> Perhaps you can tell me.
>
> T> The first one is not the real file, but the changelog.
>
> T> The tarball from the second link will be 6.5 MB.
>
> So we see however one looks at it, it will be megabytes before one can
> get his hands on any text.

--
Martin Wegmann

DLR - German Aerospace Center
German Remote Sensing Data Center
@
Dept.of Geography
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Unit
University of Wuerzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

phone: +49-(0)931 - 888 4797
fax: +49-(0)931 - 888 4961
http://www.biota-africa.org
http://www.biogis.de

--
Markus Neteler <neteler itc it> http://mpa.itc.it
ITC-irst - Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
MPBA - Predictive Models for Biol. & Environ. Data Analysis
Via Sommarive, 18 - 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy