[GRASSLIST:9904] Using multiple colors for classes of single attribute - possible or no?

I have a monolithic vector loaded into Grass 6.1 cvs (Jan 14th binary
snapshot). This vector depicts a beach coastline classification devised by
one of our geomorphologists. I am trying to symbolize the vectors such that
each beach class under the attribute 'Class' get colored differently,
possibly with different thicknesses, hache marks, etc. I know that d.vect
allows a GRASSRGB columns for customizing polygon fills, but does the same
functionality exist for lines?

I don't want to extract each beach class into it's own vector to color them
differently because I have dozens of classification edits to make, so all
classes must exist as one vector (for now).

~ Eric.

Hello Eric,

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:24:08 -0400 "Patton, Eric" <epatton@nrcan.gc.ca>
wrote:

I have a monolithic vector loaded into Grass 6.1 cvs (Jan 14th binary
snapshot). This vector depicts a beach coastline classification
devised by one of our geomorphologists. I am trying to symbolize the
vectors such that each beach class under the attribute 'Class' get
colored differently, possibly with different thicknesses, hache
marks, etc. I know that d.vect allows a GRASSRGB columns for
customizing polygon fills, but does the same functionality exist for
lines?

If you have Quantum GIS[1] with the GRASS-plugin installed it can be
achived quite nice and easy. You should givbe it a try.
It depens on which platform you are, but there might be some
binary-packages for QGIS. For SuSE9.3 you can find some here[2]

Best

  Stephan

[1] http://www.qgis.org
[2] http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software

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