[Qgis-user] Grid in print layout

[Christian Ferreira]

Hi all,


God, this will be great! For me it's really good that this feature will
finally arrive.

No more maps "somewhere over the world".

Great news!

PS: I know that I'm a bit late. But better later than never.

Cheers,
Christian

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Hugentobler Marco <
marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Grid lines for the print composer are planned for the next version
> (presumably 1.3).
>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Ricardo Filipe
> Soares Garcia da
> Gesendet: Mo 27.07.2009 22:24
> An: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] Grid in print layout
>
> Hi
> I'm also begging for such a tool. Like you, I've been manually
> creating these grids for printing purposes only. It gets painful when
> I want to display the coordinates in the bottom and right of the grid,
> having to create several layers... In fact I've been looking for a
> quick way to add them in various open source gis tools and came up
> short. So far GRASS is the only that I've seen that allows one to
> create a such a grid in an easy way (I've tried Qgis, gvSIG, uDIG,
> OpenJUMP, Kosmo and GRASS). On the downside, with GRASS I have to
> create a new region and mapset and import my files, which is also time
> consuming.
>
> I am considering learning gmt, mainly to be able to draw these grids
> on top of my maps... (though I am sure it will be useful for other
> things as well)
>
> So, to conclude, it would be really cool if Qgis had such a feature!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Martin Bolte<mail at silico.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have to make lots of maps as PDF-files and need to put a grid overlay
> > on each map. Creating all these with the plugin "graticule creator" or
> > making them via ftools - research tools - vector grid is a tedious task
> > as I need to do a lot of steps in order to have the correct coordinates
> > of the grid lines displayed in the map layout.
> >
> > Has anybody a clue on how to speed this up?
> > There should be some development on a tool allowing to insert such a
> > grid directly within the print composer dialogue.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >
> > Martin
> >
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