[GRASS-windows] Colour code vector maps

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Thu Aug 14 06:01:45 EDT 2008


On 14/08/08 11:21, Arran_Jay wrote:
> 
> 
>> How did you launch d.vect.thematic. AFAIR, d.vect.thematic should work 
>> in the GUI, i.e. using the 'Add thematic layer' button. If you want to 
>> call d.vect.thematic from a command line, use the -s flag, so that it 
>> doesn't use monitors.
> 
>> If you don't get a nice legend in the GUI, you can use the psmap= 
>> parameter to create a ps.map instruction files, one for the map and one 
>> for the legend
> 
> When I try and add a vector layer through the GUI I get the error message:
> 
> dirname: extra operand `and'
> Try `dirname --help' for more information.
> cp: target `/gismlegend.txt' is not a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory `d:/documents': Is a directory
> 
> Then the monitor loads up a blank screen and I get a blank legend box.


This is a quoting problem. Don't have time to look at this and leaving 
on vacation tomorrow, but forwarding to Michael (who is also very 
busy...) who wrote the script...

Moritz



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