hi greg, yes, QGIS is good - I started with that but, in my stubbornness, decided to see if I could master GRASS without any 'shortcuts' hehe.. when I initially set up my GRASS install too, I was actually doing it through a terminal/command-line... I don't think the GUI / point-and-click option was fully functional then (a coupla years ago)...The upside of that method meant it was one-step-at-a-time, and the terminal berated me if I got something awry like directory, resolution, projection, etc...
if you find something like QGIS that makes your GRASS entry easier, go for it. About the only 'down' thing I found with QGIS was it took some time to refresh when I was using some of my high-res pics, whereas this seemed less of an issue directly in GRASS. But it's probably improved a lot in last year or so... I'm due to play with it again soon :-) Cheers, shane. On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 23:48 -0800, Greg Corning wrote: > Shane, > > Thanks. That was much more than two cents' worth. I am playing > around with things now, and the main thing, I think, is eliminating > the spaces in file paths. Also, I have found by accident in the > process of following a tutorial on QGIS that QGIS is a great interface > for working with GRASS. > Thank you for answering my question. > > Catlike > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Shane Litherland > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hiya, > > > > I have no probs with my GRASS having been set up (on Ubuntu) > > at /home/my-home/GIS/GRASSdata, which, for you, might be equivalent to > > c:/users/path-to-your-folders/GIS... (sorry, haven't used that OS for > > awhile)... > > > > I'd also recently installed it on a colleagues laptop, I think they were > > running Vista or 7... I think I put the GRASSdata somewhere on their > > user's desktop... I was in a rush, and struggling to remember my way > > around windows so unfortunately can't recall much of the detail to help > > you. But the program did work fine. > > I was already aware that whitespace in folder/directory names is a bad > > practice (at least in my experiences.. even though i think windows still > > works ok with them, your GRASS installation, having been born from > > another family, still might not like them) so in my previous example I > > know I actively avoided that. if_you_insist_on_spaces,...be\ prepared\ > > to\ possibly\ do\things\ differently... :-) > > > > Did you install GRASS, then try moving the folder location? that may > > have confused some of the startup settings and cause your crash?? not > > sure if/how to edit startup stuff if this is your case, might be best to > > try clean install to your desired location.. unless you've already tried > > this. > > > > Maybe, if you don't get it solved 'neatly', a sym-link from C: to where > > you prefer to keep GRASS?? > > > > my two cents ;-) > > -shane > > > > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
