[GRASS5] request for new user

hello,
I am new to GRASS 5.0,
any body will help me .....

in installing Grass in linus and what r the other requirements we need to install other thatnGrass 5.0 .
How to work with Grass ?
What r the steps to take first first time users ?
Give me the web urls those will help me in this regard?
To compile what we need ?
bye

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 Radim Blazek wrote :

On Thursday 28 November 2002 03:29 am, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> * Fixes interior boundary winding (shapefiles have exteriors clockwise,
> interiors counterclockwise) for areas with holes. AFAIK,
> Vect_get_area_points and Vect_get_isle_points always return clockwise
> polygons. So isle point orders are reversed. Isles will come up
> twice, once as interior and once as exterior. (If my understanding of
> these API's is incorrect, someone please let me know.)

I thought that direction for areas/isles is the same in grass as in shapefile
and Vect_get_isle_points returns counterclockwise vertices:

struct P_isle {
  plus_t *lines; /* Boundary Lines (Negative means N2 to N1
                      counter-clockwise) */
}

int Vect_get_isle_points () {
      if (Isle->lines[i] < 0) {
          start = Points.n_points - 1; inc = -1 ; end = 1;
      } else {
          end = Points.n_points - 2; inc = 1 ; start = 0;
      }
}

It is strange if shapefiles with reverted order of isles are correct.
Did you check it in ArcExplorer or other ESRI SW (AE runs on Linux)?

Radim

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