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>7. Web-based Support for GRASS (and for GIS Matters in General)</A
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> Support for a public domain program? No way, they say! Actually, as a
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user of Linux, you probably know better.
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> GRASS started by having a GRASS Information Office at USA/CERL. There
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were also very active users outside USA/CERL, who provided valuable user
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support. GRASS had annual users' meetings, listservers for users and
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developers, etc. Companies provided value added support services on a
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contractual or fee basis.
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> Various people have developed valuable books and training materials on
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GRASS. Several universities used to conduct training courses in GRASS.
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I don't know how many of these are continuing. If training courses
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interest you, try asking on the usenet newsgroup comp.infosystems.gis
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(see below for more on this newsgroup).
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> Valuable "books" available on the Internet are noted in the References
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(Section 10).
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> World Wide Web-based training materials, including training in GRASS,
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are highlighted in the
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HREF="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/tools/gis/referenc.html"
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>CyberInstute Short Course in GIS</I
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(then scan down for the link(s) to Web-based tutorials in GIS).
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> One of the better GRASS tutorials is
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>Project Assist's - Intro to GRASS</I
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> Other good sites:
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>Central Washington University</I
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was an
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HREF="http://www.csu.edu/~gishome/grass.htm"
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>early GRASS user and training facility</I
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>Starting the hunt for mostly free spatial data</I
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by Stephan Pollard
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This is based at the Center for Advanced Spatial Technology of the
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University of Arkansas, another early educator with GRASS.
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> <A
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>Purdue University</I
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has several
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HREF="http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~aggrass"
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>GRASS features</I
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>USA/CERL's online GRASS manual</I
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>Rutgers University's</I
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>GRASS Information Center</I
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at the
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>Center for Remote Sensing and Spacial Analysis</I
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>The REGIS project</I
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>The University of California at Berkeley</I
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has a Linux version of GRASS available via ftp, and also has
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>a Web-based version of GRASS called GRASSLINKS</I
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> After getting trained by the books and Web-based tutorials noted just
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above, where do you turn to for specific advice???
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> Probably the best source of support these days is usenet newsgroup
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>comp.infosystems.gis</I
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If you're not familiar with newsgroups, ask your
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network administrator or Internet service provider.
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comp.infosystems.gis contains modestly heavy traffic on such topics as
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> "how do I find data on this topic for this area?"
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> "how do I convert these data for use in my Aardvark GIS?"
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> "how do I get this function to work in my Aardvark GIS?"
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> "which GIS can I use to solve my particular problem?"
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> GRASS used to be one of the top GISs discussed on this group. Traffic
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in GRASS is dropping slightly, as its user community matures. However,
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there are usually answers to your questions, if you post them. You
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might also do a "power search" on subject:GRASS [& your own subject of
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interest here?] and newsgroup:comp.infosystems.gis in
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>DejaNews</I
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to see what might appear from the usenet archives.
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