On 06/05/2012 21:12, Levente Kovacs wrote:
Dear Grass fellows,

I am a new member of the list. I installed GRASS on my Debian box, and have no
clue how to continue. Please forgive me my ignorance.
Welcome.
With my father, as a family project, we develop a system, that sends
coordinates to a postgresql database. So far, I have some date in the
database.

My goal would be to SELECT some data from the database, and display it on a
map. Could anyone help me how to achieve this? (no, I don't want google maps).
While I enjoy working with GRASS, in your case it might be "using a 5 kg. hammer to push in a tack". If you only need to create a point layer from X-Y locations there are several easier to use tools. Did you consider QGIS?
If you find further on that you need the advanced analysis capabilities of GRASS, then QGIS has a GRASS plugin to get you started.
I am an electrical engineer, and have no clue how does this Geographic stuff
work, so it would be nice to have some pointers in the documentation.


* How can I load a map into GRASS?
* BTW... where can I get a map from?
* How can I (from software) put a point in a map?
* How can I do some analyze stuff like distance from 2 points (on a GUI)
* other stuff will come, like mesh, etc.

Yes, I am prepared to read documents! I'm sorry if all these questions are
stupid, but I think GRASS is what I look for.
You'd certainly do well to start with the GRASS documentation:
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Help
Thank you for your help.


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