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From: Erin C. O'Doherty:R02F06A
Date: ## 07/19/94 16:25 ##
Fred, A trick I use to get labels on things from dig_att files is to 
copy the file in dig_att to site_lists directory (using awk as 
described below to get it into proper sites format (eg., 
E|N|contour_label) then when I paint the file I tell it I want to 
paint that new sites file and the when it asks if I want the site 
labels as well, I say yes. I do this instead of making real label 
files most the time because label files have a lot of stuff in them.
So here's the awk step I mentioned to make the sites file:          
awk '{print S2"|"S3"|"S4}' SLOCATION/dig_att/contour_filename > 
SLOCATION/site_lists/contour_labels
Okay, so their not the prettiest labels GRASS can make, but they're 
adequate for most things. 
Erin O'Doherty
Rocky Mtn Experiment Sta
Laramie WY

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Fred Watson writes:
> 
> I've being generating rainfall maps using s.surf.tps and the corresponding >
isohyets using r.contour.
> 
> Now, I want to be able to automatically label the isohyets with their >
respective rainfall values. Is there a way to do this under GRASS - or at least,
> a way to make it easier than hand-labelling them? N.B: I notice that you can >
get the labels displayed by v.digit but thats not much use in the bigger picture
> of things.
> 
As you may have noticed, r.contour attaches attributes to the new vector  map;
these are stored under SLOCATION/dig_att, so you have a file with  the locations
of the labels. If you're prepared to spend some time on  writing a script, you
could transfer these locations to a  SLOCATION/paint/label file that you can
display with d.paint.labels. Hope  this helps.

Philip Verhagen

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