Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-24 Thread Markus Metz
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Hamish wrote: > > There's a copy of the quickstart in the GRASS wiki. Note that > when I wrote it there was a GRASS workshop at the targeted FOSS4G > conference which was going to focus on vector processing, so I > didn't bother to put much of that in the quickstar

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-24 Thread Hamish
Markus Metz wrote: > An example for vector processing using the basins raster > created in the previous step: > > 1) convert the basins to vector areas with r.to.vect -v feature=area > 2) load average elevation for each basin to the attribute table with > v.rast.stats > 3) assign the color table o

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-24 Thread Helena Mitasova
> > Due to severe space limitations on the disc I'm continually concerned > about having to remove the NC dataset, or cut it down to Helena's 40mb > set. Hamish - I highly recommend to use this smaller dat set - it is much easier for users to understand (as I tried to avoid various obscure name

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-24 Thread Hamish
Hamish: > > Due to severe space limitations on the disc I'm continually concerned > > about having to remove the NC dataset, or cut it down to Helena's 40mb > > set. Helena: > Hamish - I highly recommend to use this smaller dat set - it > is much easier for users to understand (as I tried to avoid

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-25 Thread Markus Metz
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Hamish wrote: > Markus Metz wrote: >> An example for vector processing using the basins raster >> created in the previous step: >> >> 1) convert the basins to vector areas with r.to.vect -v feature=area >> 2) load average elevation for each basin to the attribute t

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-25 Thread Hamish
Hamish: > > I know, I was trying to make the instructions generic enough to work > > with either of the two datasets. I figured those using Spearfish would > > see the .dem and .10m and figure out that they should pick one, but > > those running in NC would be hunting around for an exact name which

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-25 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Hamish wrote: > Hamish: >> > I know, I was trying to make the instructions generic enough to work >> > with either of the two datasets. I figured those using Spearfish would >> > see the .dem and .10m and figure out that they should pick one, but >> > those running

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-25 Thread Helena Mitasova
> > ok, done. > > I note some left over Mac ._files and some empty .tmp/ cruft, and also > the SEARCH_PATH in user1 lists some mapsets not shipped with the smaller > dataset. harmless, but.. > Hamish - thanks for pointing it out - I will fix it and post a new one ASAP, Helena > > thanks, > Ha

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-25 Thread Helena Mitasova
Hamish, thanks for pointing it out - there was a lot of stuff that I did not know was there, it should be cleaned up now, please let me know if you still find something or if there are any problems. Also, I can export the data into some external formats - perhaps shape files and geotiff? in

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-25 Thread Hamish
Helena wrote: > thanks for pointing it out - there was a lot of stuff that I > did not know was there, it should be cleaned up now, please > let me know if you still find something or if there are any > problems. ... > http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea792/common/media/gisdemo.zip ok, thanks. should we

Re: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

2012-07-25 Thread Hamish
Markus N wrote: > Examples *must* work out of the box from my point of view. (they do, afaik) > Also, there is not much advertisement coming from an > outdated dataset of the '80th (Spearfish) while having for > many years a way more recent data set available, published, > and meanwhile used in m