LABELING to a monitor ???

Bonnie Weller writes:

I want to display labels to the monitor. Can this be done using GRASS?

I tried using d.paint.labels without luck. The labels will display
using p.map but I cannot draw labels from the command line.

d.paint.labels should do the job; remember that d.paint.labels can only
display labels previously defined with d.labels or p.labels. Check the
label-file and your region settings, I suggest.

How can I display labels for vector and raster files.

the easiest way is writing a script that takes the vector attributes and
transforms them to labels. I never tried this for vector maps, but for
site_lists it worked fine. For raster maps I don't see a quick solution,
as there are no centroids defined as far as I know.

Can labeling to the screen be done or should I forget it and wait to
do annotation when we switch over to ARC/Info next year ??

Only if you don't need them before next year!

Good luck,

Philip Verhagen
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