[GRASS-dev] default vector point symbol

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:25:56AM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> Michael Barton wrote:
> > > In addition I have a "d.mark x y" script to put a marker on the xmon
> > > at a given x,y, which is pretty handy, much easier than
> > > v.in.ascii+d.vect.
> > >  (just added to addons)
> > > examples:
> > >   d.mark 65,30
> > >   d.mark -m 595968,4918693
> > > 
> > 
> > This sounds real handy. Is it on the WIKI? Maybe we should add it to
> > the main GRASS distribution.
> 
> It's on the wiki addons page. It's just a shortcut & doesn't add
> anything new so I never considered adding it to the main GRASS CVS.
> shrug.

I think that such a functionality is regularly needed. Maybe,
it could go into d.labels as being close with 'labels' then
optional and additional reading from stdin? On the other hand,
we don't have too many d.* modules yet.

Markus