[OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source software application that will draw a graticule on a map?

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Brent,

(remembering this thread...) some new cartography
screenshots arrived:
  http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php

Cheers
Markus

On 9/7/07, Markus Neteler <neteler.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Brent,
>
> with GRASS' ps.map you can do that rather easily:
>
> - define the raster and vector map names
> - define (optionally) legend stuff
> - activate "geogrid" to overlay a geographic grid onto the output map
> - define paper size
>
> It generated a Postscript file (use ps2pdf to make PDF) which
> can be printed then.
>
> See
>  http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass63/ps.map.html
>
> Example screenshot (a bit low-res, sorry):
> http://www.gdf-hannover.de/lit_html/grass60_v1.2/img35.png
>
> Code for that map:
> http://www.gdf-hannover.de/lit_html/grass60_v1.2_en/node78.html
>
> Markus
>
> On 9/6/07, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I've been looking for an Open Source desktop application
> > that will:
> >
> > 1. Combine raster and vector spatial data, and (re)project
> > them
> > 2. Render a graticule (lines and labels showing latitude and
> > longitude) (and no, I don't want to create a shapefile to do
> > that)
> > 3. Print to a large format plotter (paper 24 inches wide or
> > greater)
> >
> > So far I've looked at uDig, Quantum GIS, and gvSig.  As far
> > as I can tell, none of them can do Step 2, and only gvSig
> > does Step 3 successfully.
> >
> > Any pointers would be appreciated!
> >
> > Brent Fraser
> > GeoAnalytic Inc.
> > Calgary, Alberta