[GRASS-user] GPS tracking with PDA using GIS software

Dear all, I am looking for some GIS softwares for PDA (with GPS tracking). The tool should provide following futures. 1. Provide standard GIS support such as display, overlay, custom draw and management. 2. Provide situation awareness using standard mapping and icons. 3. Track the individual

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS temp directory...

Jonathan wrote: > I'm curious -- where does GRASS write its temporary files, GRASS session variables go into /tmp/grass6-$USER-$PID/gisrc This is a very small file. There is a bit in lib/init/init.sh that sets that, but the ability to change to $TMPDIR istead of /tmp/ has been commented out. (som

[GRASS-user] Creating a world file from unreferenced images

Hi, Not entirely a GRASS question but I'm hoping someone can point me to the right direction I was given thousands (literally!) of topo images in either jpg or bmp. My task is to create an indexed raster for viewing in either GRASS or QGIS via WMS. The problem: all files do not have a world fil

Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS temp directory...

Jonathan Greenberg wrote: I'm curious -- where does GRASS write its temporary files, and how would I change this if I wanted to? Thanks! --j What OS are you on? It looks to me like it uses /grass6-- so on my linux box it's under /tmp/grass6-... So you can edit to change the $tmp variable /

[GRASS-user] GRASS temp directory...

I'm curious -- where does GRASS write its temporary files, and how would I change this if I wanted to? Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue The Barn, Room 25

Re: [GRASS-user] Getting vectors from postscript files

Markus Neteler wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Richard Chirgwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a large and layered PDF map which I'd like to get into Grass-GIS, preferably without tracing the vectors by hand - there are hundreds! I've been looking at various ways to extract the v

[GRASS-user] displaying volumes from xyz vector in nviz

Dear all, I have a vector point file and have tried to run the program v.to.rast3 though in the 'column name' section I am unsure what to enter? the column attributes for the data are as follows. > INTEGER/cat> INTEGER/Id> DOUBLE PRECISION/X> DOUBLE PRECISION/Y> DOUBLE > PRECISION/Z I have

Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS issues poll

Ted, set HOME=%USERPROFILE% Where does the grassrc6 file appear with the above? With set Home=c::/home , it appears in the c/Home directory. I have Cygwin grass 6.0 operating from D:/ so it was necessary to use C;/ for Wingrass. the .grassrc6 file has been created by the installer in your

Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS issues poll

set HOME=%USERPROFILE% Where does the grassrc6 file appear with the above? With set Home=c::/home , it appears in the c/Home directory. I have Cygwin grass 6.0 operating from D:/ so it was necessary to use C;/ for Wingrass. - Original Message - From: "Marco Pasetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS issues poll

Ted, I notice that the grass63.bat file does not show complete paths for all functions. Do full paths have to be substituted by the user? For example rem Directory where your .grassrc6 file will be stored set HOME=c:\home rem Name of the wish (Tk) executable set GRASS_WISH=C:\grass\tcl-tk\bi

Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS issues poll

Thanks for the reply. I have tried both options without success. I notice that the grass63.bat file does not show complete paths for all functions. Do full paths have to be substituted by the user? For example rem Directory where your .grassrc6 file will be stored set HOME=c:\home rem Name o

Re: [GRASS-user] Getting vectors from postscript files

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Richard Chirgwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a large and layered PDF map which I'd like to get into Grass-GIS, > preferably without tracing the vectors by hand - there are hundreds! > > I've been looking at various ways to extract the vectors - in particula

Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS issues poll

Hi Ted, Downloaded the current wingrass-6.3.0-4 setup. No problem with starting the msys console or the command line, but the 6.3.0 gui fails to open the gis manager, producing the following error "gm: errmsg" if {[catch {set env(gisbase)[exec g.gisenv get=gisbase]}error c:/gtrass/etc/gm/gm.t

Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS issues poll

Windows XP I had no problem with Wingrass-6.3.cvs - Original Message - From: "Marco Pasetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Nebitko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Maciej Sieczka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "grass-user" Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:50 AM Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS iss

Re: [GRASS-user] WinGRASS issues poll

Hi Ted, Downloaded the current wingrass-6.3.0-4 setup. No problem with starting the msys console or the command line, but the 6.3.0 gui fails to open the gis manager, producing the following error "gm: errmsg" if {[catch {set env(gisbase)[exec g.gisenv get=gisbase]}error c:/gtrass/etc/gm/gm.t

Re: Post-processing ps.map output with inkscape Re: [GRASS-user] problems with ps.map outputs

Hi all, just to say that inkscape can import Sketch files (.sk extension) and these can be derived from a ps.map .ps output by pstoedit. ->$ pstoedit -f sk file.ps file.sk ->$ inkscape file.sk hope it helps Francesco Tom Russo wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:49:37PM +0200, we reco

[GRASS-user] Re: Post-processing ps.map output with inkscape

Yes, with ps2pdf the combination Grass/Inkscape works great... By the way (perhaps off subject, but it may be interesting for those who can't give up with Illustrator) : Inkscape 0.46 now handles transparency between layers. In the past it was not implemented which was a big limitation for clean g