[GRASS-user] d.vect icon question

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Hi all,

I would like to include personalized icons in order to visualize them through the command:

d.vect "vect_map" icon="my_icon"

is it possible?
if so, in which directory should I put the icon I want to represent?

thank you very much,

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Alberto Pettazzi

MeteoGalicia - Departamento de Climatología y Observación

Consellería de Medio Ambiente, Territorio e Infraestruturas

Rúa de Roma, 6

15707 Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña

Teléfono: +34-881-999646

e-mail: alberto.pettazzi@meteogalicia.es <mailto:alberto.pettazzi@meteogalicia.es>

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Alberto Pettazzi wrote:

I would like to include personalized icons in order to visualize them
through the command:

d.vect "vect_map" icon="my_icon"

is it possible?
if so, in which directory should I put the icon I want to represent?

Although I am no expert in this field, I think /etc/symbol under your
local grass installation is the directory of your interest.

Best regards, Nikos

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Alberto Pettazzi wrote:
> I would like to include personalized icons in order to
> visualize them through the command:
>
> d.vect "vect_map" icon="my_icon"
>
> is it possible?

yes, see http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/IconSymbols

> if so, in which directory should I put the icon I want
to represent?

Although I am no expert in this field, I think /etc/symbol
under your local grass installation is the directory of your
interest.

lib/symbol/README in the source code says:
"Symbol drawing commands are stored in a text file (one file
for each symbol) which are located in
$GISBASE/etc/symbol/group/name or mapset/symbol/group/name

S_read() searches first in mapsets and then in $GISBASE
(symbol names in $GISBASE may be overidden by symbols of the
same group/name in mapset)."

Hamish