GRASS How To: Acquisition/Compilation of GRASS Source Code
The GRASS binaries for Linux tend to work. Why would anyone want to mess with the source code? Let’s try to answer this with another … Read more
GRASS How To: References
For general reference material on GIS, try a very good technical bookstore (in many cases these are campus bookstores at schools with good GIS programs … Read more
Acquisition/Installation of GRASS Binaries
This appendix describes how to acquire and install Linux binaries for GRASS4.13 (the 3rd update to the last full release of GRASS, version 4.1). How … Read more
GRASS How To: Copyright Notice, and Notice on Support of this Document
9.1. Copyright notice This document was prepared by a Federal civil servant in support of his work (but mostly on his own time). It is … Read more
GRASS How To: The Future of GRASS?
Excellent question! Several possible answers have been thrown out: USA/CERL’s announced intention is to use GRASS and COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software) for internal uses, to … Read more
GRASS How To: Web-based Support for GRASS (and for GIS Matters in General)
Support for a public domain program? No way, they say! Actually, as a user of Linux, you probably know better. GRASS started by having a … Read more
GRASS How To: How to Get GRASS Running on Your Linux-based Computer
Appendices A, B, and C describe how to acquire and install GRASS. Before actually installing GRASS, you will have to decide where to put three … Read more
GRASS How To: How to Acquire GRASS
GRASS used to be available on tape from various companies that signed distribution agreements with USA/CERL. These companies usually supported specific platform environments, such as … Read more
GRASS How To: System Requirements for GRASS
Minimum requirements include: 8 Mbytes of memory (of course, more is better..) 100 Mbytes of free disk space ~40 mb for executables, ~40 mb for … Read more
GRASS How To: Continued Assessment of Future GRASS Management
Note: An ad-hoc group (which includes myself) is exploring the basic issue of continued, reconfigured, yea perhaps increased, value of GRASS as a public test-bed … Read more
GRASS How To: A Reinvigorated GRASS Management Model
In late 1997, a group at Baylor University took the lead in developing a new Website for GRASS. This quickly developing Website contains GRASS 4.1 … Read more
GRASS How To: A Brief History of GRASS
In the early 1980s the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois, began to explore the possibilities of … Read more