Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#2329 new enhancement

wishlist for some d.* modules and ps.map

Reported by: veroandreo Owned by: grass-dev@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.6.2
Component: Default Version: unspecified
Keywords: Cc:
CPU: Unspecified Platform: Linux

Description

Hi everybody

I've been making some maps these days for a poster presentation and, if I may, i have a "little" wishlist for some display modules: 

  • an option for background color would be highly appreciated for legend, grid labels, north arrow and text in the GUI (d.text has this "bgcolor" option in command line but it is not available in the GUI)
  • also the possibility to add legends for vector maps would be really nice to have (i saw this was listed for GSoC)... 

There's no option for legend background color in g.gui.psmap, either, nor for adding legends of vector maps representing different categories. I mean, there's a vector legend option in psmap, but if you are interested in polygons with different categories and you want to add a legend for that, there's no way to do it (unless you convert the vector map to a raster map, which was what I had to do)...

Don't know how much work may be required, but IMHO, this would make cartographic composition in our favourite GIS a bit more friendly and customizable.

Thanks a lot! :)

Vero

Change History (11)

in reply to:  description ; comment:1 by mlennert, 10 years ago

Replying to veroandreo:

There's no option for legend background color in g.gui.psmap, either

Note that g.gui.psmap is an incomplete graphical frontend to ps.map. The module offers many more options.

, nor for adding legends of vector maps representing different categories. I mean, there's a vector legend option in psmap, but if you are interested in polygons with different categories and you want to add a legend for that, there's no way to do it (unless you convert the vector map to a raster map, which was what I had to do)...

Not sure I understand exactly what you mean by "legends representing different categories", but you can check out these example scripts, notably the 'label' option in the 'varea' definitions.

Moritz

in reply to:  1 comment:2 by veroandreo, 10 years ago

Replying to mlennert:

Replying to veroandreo:

There's no option for legend background color in g.gui.psmap, either

Note that g.gui.psmap is an incomplete graphical frontend to ps.map. The module offers many more options.

Yeah, I've also used ps.map, but there's no bgcolor (or similar) option under colortable. I would also need a logarithmic scale in the raster legend, but there's no option for that, neither for setting specific tick-marks (perhaps this should go to a separate ticket??).

, nor for adding legends of vector maps representing different categories. I mean, there's a vector legend option in psmap, but if you are interested in polygons with different categories and you want to add a legend for that, there's no way to do it (unless you convert the vector map to a raster map, which was what I had to do)...

Not sure I understand exactly what you mean by "legends representing different categories", but you can check out these example scripts, notably the 'label' option in the 'varea' definitions.

This I haven't noticed. Thanks much for the examples and for pointing that out :)

Vero

comment:3 by neteler, 8 years ago

Milestone: 7.1.07.2.0

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comment:4 by neteler, 7 years ago

Milestone: 7.2.07.2.1

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comment:5 by martinl, 7 years ago

Milestone: 7.2.17.2.2

comment:6 by martinl, 7 years ago

Milestone: 7.2.27.4.0

All enhancement tickets should be assigned to 7.4 milestone.

comment:7 by neteler, 6 years ago

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comment:8 by neteler, 6 years ago

Milestone: 7.4.17.4.2

comment:9 by martinl, 6 years ago

Milestone: 7.4.27.6.0

All enhancement tickets should be assigned to 7.6 milestone.

comment:10 by martinl, 5 years ago

Milestone: 7.6.07.6.1

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