[GRASS-user] Opensource and pretty maps design anybody?

[kapo coulibaly]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I've used qgis quite a bit, it has a
nice GUI but it is not very good with pretty maps. I'll give the SVG format,
GMT and other graphic softwares a try. But how do you handle large numbers
of feature (contour labeling)? It can be pretty tedious if you are going to
cycle through various attributes attached to the same features. I think
there is a case to be made that there is a gap to be filled. Opensource GIS
software (Grass GIS, qGIS, Mapwindow, Saga...etc) could use some enhancement
in this department.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Malte Martin <malte at perlomat.de> wrote:

> QGIS?
> http://www.qgis.org/en.html
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> It comes along with a GRASS Plugin so you can use GRASS datasets.
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> Malte
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> Am 17.08.2010 um 17:56 schrieb kapo coulibaly:
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>  I've been using opensource GIS for a while (GRASS a lot). But they are all
>> very limited when it comes to creating nice maps. I always have to resolve
>> to using ArcGIS to put final touches on maps. Anybody has a suggestion for a
>> free software to use for map design?
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