[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS Map Display

[Sudeep Singh]

Thank you Michael. The PNG file which I want to display is actually a WMS
getmap requests response. Now once I have this reponse from WMS, I want this
image returned to be displyed as a layer in GRASS GIS Map Display.


Sudeep

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>wrote:

> First, keep in mind that GRASS is a GIS, not a graphics program. So you
> can't just "display" any graphics file. That is not the purpose of GRASS
> software.
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> You can visualize a graphics file in the GRASS GIS environment by importing
> it into an XY location--i.e., where pixel coordinates are not tied to an
> earth coordinate system.
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> If you want to orient a map that comes in a graphic file format (e.g., a
> scanned map) so that it can be used in a GIS, you will need to georeference
> it so that each pixel is mapped to a corresponding earth coordinate system.
> You can use the georeferencing wizard in GRASS to do this.
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> If you want to display a photo of a place on top of a map, GRASS does not
> do that. You can save a map to a graphics file and then create your
> photo/map collage in a program like GIMP or Inkscape.
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> Michael
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> On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:00 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> <
> grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:55:45 +0530
> > From: Sudeep Singh <sudeep495 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS Map Display
> > To: GRASS-dev <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> > Hi,
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> > I want to display an image in GRASS GIS Map Display. I have a PNG file
> which
> > I want to display. How should I go about that , if some one has
> suggestion
> > for this .
> >
> > thanks
> > sudeep
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