Jason,
I agree completely that obtaining the GRASS GIS book
(http://www.grassbook.org/ ) is the way to go. I don't agree that it's
necessary to learn GIS concepts first using ArcGIS or QGIS. There are
many books on R, including "Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R".
Tom
On 9/21/10 12:06 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
There is a book written by several of the projects leads, one of which
is a university professor who teaches GRASS.
http://www.grassbook.org/
Best advice, learn GIS concepts using Arc or QGIS or something similar
and then jump into GRASS, R, Spatial Databases.
FYI, QGIS has a GRASS plugin which makes it easier to start using GRASS
for the first time.
Enjoy,
Alex
On 09/21/2010 07:18 AM, jason.gas...@noaa.gov wrote:
Greetings,
I don't mean to hijack this thread, but do the Grass users have a
suggestion as to the best way to learn the program? The manual is
somewhat helpful, but there must be something out there a little more
user friendly.
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: stephen sefick<ssef...@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010 3:58 am
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Open source GIS and R
I use GRASS and R on a more or less daily basis. They play nicely
together. The great strength of GRASS is you have the ability to use
shell scripts (with all the wonders of the *nix environment) once you
figure out the proper work flow (you can also run commands from
within
R although I haven't tried this). Set the computer to work, and go
home and have a beer while you are getting work done. FYI the GRASS
team has just released the new stable version 6.4.1 (I think).
HTH,
Stephen
2010/9/17 José Miguel Barrios<jmbarri...@gmail.com>:
Manuel,
Since you are interested in landscape ecology, you may want to
take a look
at the features present in r.le, a set of programs available in
GRASS. Take
a look at this document:
http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/landscape/r_le_manual5.pdf
Cheers,
José Miguel
2010/9/17 Manuel Spínola<mspinol...@gmail.com>
Dear list members,
I am an ecologist interested in spatial and landscape ecology
and a user of
ArcView 3.3 with little experience in ArcGis but I would like
to migrate to
an open source GIS with an interface with R.
I know that there are several options: QGIS, SAGA, GRASS, Illwis.
What will be the best option of these or other alternatives?
Best,
Manuel
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