Hi Moritz,
Hi everyone,
I'm working on the GRASS tutorial
(http://tutorial.grass.it-zone.org/index.html) and I just finished a first
draft of a chapter for newbies telling them how to get GRASS going very
quickly (and maybe a bit roughly ;-)).
I think this chapter is an excellent, brief and simple starting page for
beginner with lots of necessary information making first steps in GRASS.
Could some of you skim through what
I wrote at http://tutorial.grass.it-zone.org/tenminutes.html, just to
chack that I didn't lead them to far astray. This chapter is a response to
the thread on this list concerning the steep entry learning curve of
newcomers: http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2002-May/002923.html.
some ideas I would change or add (maybe not necessary at all):
1) I would describe the use of tcltk in some parts, maybe simply as a
link to your "Graphical User Interface" chapter, or as a small hint or
advice.
e.g.: in "You have a GRASS database" after point 4., because it isn't
mentioned in "the chapter called The Most Important Commands to Get
Started",
too.
-> something like: you can start a GUI with tcltkgrass& or ...
and you can start grass using -text or -tcltk ...
especially for the many newbies used to Windows (click, click)
2) the gdal part in "You have a georeferenced raster file, but don't
know its geographical coordinates" was a little confusing to me.
-> 11. The part where you explain "NewLocation". I first thought you
mean
the temporary Location created in the beginning. Maybe it would become
clearer
to add a link pointing at:
http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/r.in.gdal.html.
-> 12. If all goes well ...leave GRASS and restart GRASS.
"why" -> maybe there is missing that once you have started a
GRASS session you cannot switch between Locations ...
3) In "You have a non-georeferenced data file" I would switch subsection
3
"If you have a ..." with 4 "Since your map", bacause that is the way I
would
proceed ...
- import in XY Location and then georeferencing with the help of your
link
"Processing Scanned Maps."
These are just some subjective impressions, so maybe I am wrong and
a beginner wouldn't care about it at all ...
thanks for your great work
Otto