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

2012-07-26 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 copy

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

2012-07-26 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 (they do, afaik) Also, there is not much advertisement coming from an outdated dataset of the '80th (Spearfish) while having for many years a way more recent data set available, published, and meanwhile used in most

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 hamis...@yahoo.com 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

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 hamis...@yahoo.com 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

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, Hamish

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

2012-07-24 Thread Markus Metz
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com 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

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 of the

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 names

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