If you use the p.map command, you can display sites with a color from the color
chart of your printer (eg, shinko or tectronics). You can print out the color
chart for your printer with the p.chart command. Each color has a number associated
with it, so in your p.map script you could specify a color in the following way:
sites archsites
color 95
icon diamond
size 2
end
This would create a lime green diamond. You cannot choose a number for a color
in the d.points or d.sites command. You can, however, use it for any component
of the p.map script that references a color.
Review the manual pages for p.colors, p.map, and p.chart. This color referencing
is very useful when creating a symbol for a legend. This insures that the color
for a category of your raster map will match its symbol in the legend. See the
article that Melissa Records wrote in GRASSCLIPPINGS, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 1991.
Jean Messersmith
In response to:
I would like to display sites with colors that are
not the standard named colors available in d.sites,
and d.points.
Is there any way to use an RGB ddescription (or equivalent)
for a sites display?Thank-you
Edwin Welles