I'm an absolute beginner to the field of GIS-Software, but I have a task which seems to be solveable with a GIS-software
I'm working in a linguistic project which deals with dialects. So, we have a land - in this case bulgaria - with villages, cities and so on. I've got long- and lattitude-values for each of this locations. Now I need a software which I can tell "Make a point in blue color at this coordinates".
I think that GIS-Software is the right thing for me? Can I do that with GRASS?? I'm honest, I downloaded and installed GRASS, read some tutorials, but I don't know where I can get bulgarian maps and how to import them and so on ...
Hi and welcome here...
For your purpose (Adding points on a map) GRASS is too much..
You can use www.qgis.org for creating a new map with your points.
Bye
Luca
Alle 14:52, giovedì 06 aprile 2006, Thomas Zastrow ha scritto:
Dear list,
I'm an absolute beginner to the field of GIS-Software, but I have a task
which seems to be solveable with a GIS-software
I'm working in a linguistic project which deals with dialects. So, we
have a land - in this case bulgaria - with villages, cities and so on.
I've got long- and lattitude-values for each of this locations. Now I
need a software which I can tell "Make a point in blue color at this
coordinates".
I think that GIS-Software is the right thing for me? Can I do that with
GRASS?? I'm honest, I downloaded and installed GRASS, read some
tutorials, but I don't know where I can get bulgarian maps and how to
import them and so on ...
Perhaps you can give me some tips?
Thanks a lot,
Tom
--
"E' molto più bello sapere qualcosa di tutto, che tutto di una cosa (Blaise
Pascal)."
GENTOO-GIS Development Team
jabber: casagrande@jabber.linux.it
GIS is the right thing, but perhaps it is better to start with QGIS
(www.qgis.org) and import your point data (GPS data I suppose - import as
txt using the plugin "insert delimited text layer") and load a satellite
image/boarder etc. file as well. From this point on you can manipulate them
in QGIS and do more sophisticated analysis using GRASS.
BTW the forthcoming version of QGIS can interact with GRASS
However there are many other data sources but it depends what you are exactly
looking for.
regards, Maritn
On Thursday 06 April 2006 14:52, Thomas Zastrow wrote:
Dear list,
I'm an absolute beginner to the field of GIS-Software, but I have a task
which seems to be solveable with a GIS-software
I'm working in a linguistic project which deals with dialects. So, we
have a land - in this case bulgaria - with villages, cities and so on.
I've got long- and lattitude-values for each of this locations. Now I
need a software which I can tell "Make a point in blue color at this
coordinates".
I think that GIS-Software is the right thing for me? Can I do that with
GRASS?? I'm honest, I downloaded and installed GRASS, read some
tutorials, but I don't know where I can get bulgarian maps and how to
import them and so on ...
Perhaps you can give me some tips?
Thanks a lot,
Tom
--
Martin Wegmann
DLR - German Aerospace Center
German Remote Sensing Data Center
@
Dept.of Geography
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Unit
&&
Dept. of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
University of Wuerzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
I'm an absolute beginner to the field of GIS-Software, but I have a task
which seems to be solveable with a GIS-software
I'm working in a linguistic project which deals with dialects. So, we
have a land - in this case bulgaria - with villages, cities and so on.
I've got long- and lattitude-values for each of this locations. Now I
need a software which I can tell "Make a point in blue color at this
coordinates".
I think that GIS-Software is the right thing for me? Can I do that with
GRASS?? I'm honest, I downloaded and installed GRASS, read some
tutorials, but I don't know where I can get bulgarian maps and how to
import them and so on ...
Perhaps you can give me some tips?
If you just want to make maps, you would probably be better off with
GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
GRASS is primarily an analysis package, designed for performing
computations on geographic data.
I'm working in a linguistic project which deals with dialects. So, we
have a land - in this case bulgaria - with villages, cities and so on.
I've got long- and lattitude-values for each of this locations. Now I
need a software which I can tell "Make a point in blue color at this
coordinates".
Use v.in.ascii to import points and 'd.vect color=blue icon=basic/circle'
to display them.
I'm working in a linguistic project which deals with dialects. So, we have a land - in this case bulgaria - with villages, cities and so on.
I've got long- and lattitude-values for each of this locations. Now I need a software which I can tell "Make a point in blue color at this coordinates".
Use v.in.ascii to import points and 'd.vect color=blue icon=basic/circle' to display them.
Hamish
Thank you all - I think I will try QGis first, that seems to be a very nice tool ...
