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companies. GRASS GIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial
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Foundation (OSGeo).
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+<hr>
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+Content
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+<!-- TODO: make clickable with anchors -->
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+<ol>
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+<li> Startup of GRASS GIS</li>
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+<li> Background: GRASS GIS Location structure</li>
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+<li> Creating a GRASS Database with Sample Data</li>
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+<li> Creating a New Location with the Location Wizard</li>
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+<li> Further Reading</li>
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+<li> See also</li>
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+</ol>
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+<hr>
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<h2>1. Startup of GRASS GIS</h2>
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After <a href="grass7.html">launching</a> GRASS GIS, the startup screen will open:
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The "Location Wizard" let's you easily create a new LOCATION. You
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will be guided through a series of dialogues to browse and select
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predefined projections (also via EPSG code) or to define individual
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-projections. Find below some rules to define the default raster
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-resolution for a new LOCATION.
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+projections. You can also create new LOCATION easily from a georeferenced
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+data file (e.g., SHAPE file or GeoTIFF, see below). Find below also some
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+rules to define the default raster resolution for a new LOCATION.
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<h3><img src="circle_5.png" alt="[(5)]"> Start GRASS</h3>
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"PERMANENT" is visible to all users accessing a LOCATION.
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<p>
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+<!-- original drawing: doc/help_loc_structure.odg -->
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<center>
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<img src="help_loc_struct.png" alt="[GRASS GIS Location structure]"><br>
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- <i>Fig. 1: GRASS GIS location structure</i>
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+ <i>Fig. 1: GRASS GIS 7 location structure</i>
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</center>
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<h3>Creating and maintaining MAPSETs</h3>
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related to project issues or subregions. Another motivation is to
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support simultaneous access of several users to the map layers
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stored within the same LOCATION, i.e. teams working on the same
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-project. For teams a centralized GRASS DATABASE would be defined
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-in a network file system (e.g. NFS). Besides access to his/her own
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+project. For teams, a centralized GRASS DATABASE would be defined
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+in a shared network file system (e.g. NFS). Besides access to his/her own
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MAPSET, each user can also read map layers in other users' MAPSETs,
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but s/he can modify or remove only the map layers in his/her own
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MAPSET.
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To manipulate or add data to PERMANENT, the owner would start
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GRASS and choose the relevant LOCATION and the PERMANENT MAPSET. This
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mapset also contains the DEFAULT_WIND file, which holds the default
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-region boundary coordinate values for the location (which all users
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+region boundary coordinate values for the LOCATION (which all users
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will inherit when they start using the database). Additionally, in
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all mapsets a WIND file is kept, for storing the current boundary
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coordinate values and the currently selected raster resolution. Users
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Now you are ready to select a sample dataset in the GRASS GIS startup screen
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(see above) and start the session.
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-<h2>4. Creating A New Location with the Location Wizard</h2>
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+<h2>4. Creating a New Location with the Location Wizard</h2>
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The <a href="wxGUI.html">wxGUI</a> graphical user interface provides a
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-graphical "Location Wizard" which let's you easily create a
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+graphical "Location Wizard" which lets you easily create a
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new LOCATION for own data. You will be guided through a series of dialogues to
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browse and select predefined projections (also via EPSG code) or to
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define individual projections. The rules to define the resolution as
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described above also apply here.
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<p>
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-<i>Hint: You can create new location easily from a georeferenced data file.
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+<i>Hint: You can create new LOCATION easily from a georeferenced data file
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+(e.g., SHAPE file or GeoTIFF file with the related metadata properly included).
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In this case you are asked whether the data itself should be imported
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-into the new location. The default region is then set to match imported map
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+into the new LOCATION. The default region is then set to match imported map
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and the GRASS GIS session is opened.</i>
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<p>
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-After defining new location, wxGUI starts automatically.
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+After defining new LOCATION, wxGUI starts automatically.
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If data were already imported, you can add them into the Layer Manager now
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-and display them. If your location is empty you can import your data from
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+and display them. If your LOCATION is empty you can import your data from
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the menu: Go to "File" -> "Import raster/vector data" (see also the
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related Wiki page on <a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Importing_data">Importing data</a>).
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