I've always used ps.map for presentations by writing scripts and using the
GUI to place things. It's a long, tedious process (for me, at least) but
familiar. I've been told that Qgis can produce nice presentation maps and
use grass raster and vector files. I've not used Qgis at all but have just
installed it (I believe, with the grass option) on my ThinkPad.
I would like suggestions to either facilitate ps.map creation or use qgis or
another tool to create 3 presentatoin maps of topography, flowlines and flow
accumulations.
All ideas welcome,
Rich
On Fri, 12 May 2023, Massimiliano Alvioli wrote:
I am not sure what can be done to facilitate the use of ps.map, but I can
tell that browsing GRASS mapsets from QGIS to create nice map figures is
the easiest thing to do. If you browse your "grassdata" folder from the
file explorer in QGIS, you must scroll down until you see GRASS icons for
each location. Then you can navigate to your mapset and display your
raster/vectors in QGIS, and use the map creator (?) tool to prepare
figures.
Massi,
ps.map has always been a low priority for improvements. While it took a lot
of time to produce high quality output, the presention to non-technical
decision-makers was highly satisfying. Now I have several projects needing
such images so I installed qgis and need to learn how to use it for this
purpose.
Your instructions are really helpful and I'll apply them today to produce
the 3 maps needed immediately.
Best regards,
Rich
For some use cases, you can consider the m.printws addon. It is an alternative to ps.map (both GUI and the command line) based on the standard d-commands.
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/addons/m.printws.html
Since we are listing options here, GMT experienced quite some revamp. I would curious if anyone here has tried it lately.
On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:01, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
On Fri, 12 May 2023, Massimiliano Alvioli wrote:
I am not sure what can be done to facilitate the use of ps.map, but I can
tell that browsing GRASS mapsets from QGIS to create nice map figures is
the easiest thing to do. If you browse your “grassdata” folder from the
file explorer in QGIS, you must scroll down until you see GRASS icons for
each location. Then you can navigate to your mapset and display your
raster/vectors in QGIS, and use the map creator (?) tool to prepare
figures.
Massi,
ps.map has always been a low priority for improvements. While it took a lot
of time to produce high quality output, the presention to non-technical
decision-makers was highly satisfying. Now I have several projects needing
such images so I installed qgis and need to learn how to use it for this
purpose.
Your instructions are really helpful and I’ll apply them today to produce
the 3 maps needed immediately.
Best regards,
Rich
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On Fri, 12 May 2023, Vaclav Petras wrote:
For some use cases, you can consider the m.printws addon. It is an
alternative to ps.map (both GUI and the command line) based on the standard
d-commands.
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/addons/m.printws.html
Vaclav,
Thanks for the pointer.
Since we are listing options here, GMT experienced quite some revamp. I
would curious if anyone here has tried it lately.
What's GMT other than the deprecated Greenwich Mean Time?
Regards,
Rich
Den 2023-05-13 kl. 19:41, skrev Rich Shepard:
Since we are listing options here, GMT experienced quite some revamp. I
would curious if anyone here has tried it lately.
What's GMT other than the deprecated Greenwich Mean Time?
Generic Mapping Tools
https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/
It stands for Generic Mapping Tools. It’s excellent software, but not for the faint of heart, IMO. Very steep learning curve, but the payoff is worth it.
https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/
~ Eric.
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On Fri, 12 May 2023, Vaclav Petras wrote:
For some use cases, you can consider the m.printws addon. It is an
alternative to ps.map (both GUI and the command line) based on the standard
d-commands.
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/addons/m.printws.html
Vaclav,
Thanks for the pointer.
Since we are listing options here, GMT experienced quite some revamp. I
would curious if anyone here has tried it lately.
What’s GMT other than the deprecated Greenwich Mean Time?
Regards,
Rich
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On Sat, 13 May 2023, Eric Patton wrote:
It stands for Generic Mapping Tools. It’s excellent software, but not for
the faint of heart, IMO. Very steep learning curve, but the payoff is
worth it.
https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/
Eric,
Thanks. I'll take a look.
Regards,
Rich