[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] GRASSplot: a tool for plotting GRASS maps with Python (Matplotlib and Basemap)

[Andy Wickert]

Hi Nikos,

Thanks for trying out the example and for the links, and please let me know
if there is anything on your wish list for what should be included.

Cheers,

Andy


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Andrew D. Wickert
PhD Candidate
INSTAAR & Geological Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nik at nikosalexandris.net>wrote:

> Andy Wickert wrote:
>
> > Dear GRASS users and developers,
> >
> > In order to create consistent and attractive figures that combine the
> > computational and data management abilities of GRASS GIS with the very
> > developed set of plotting tools provided by Python's Matplotlib (and
> > Basemap toolkit), I wrote a small module to automate Python plotting of
> > GRASS GIS data.
> >
> > It currently works only for lat/lon locations (with Basemap doing the
> > projection). It works well for rasters, but has some issues with vector
> > extraction. I'll be working on it intermittently, but have now posted it
> to
> > my GitHub.
> >
> > Code at:
> > https://github.com/awickert/GRASSplot
> >
> > Basemap (Python) main page and gallery:
> > http://matplotlib.org/basemap/
> > http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/examples.html
> >
> > Hope some of you find this useful!
>
> Thank you Andy.
>
> The "NorthAmerica" example works for me (under Funtoo, grass64).  I've
> seen a
> couple of the examples in the above mentioned link.  If this project works
> out
> as you plan, it'll be really very nice.  I only would like to point out to
> the
> following Q&As which might be of your interest (as I was, coincidentally,
> skimming through them today):
>
> - <
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/3083/what-makes-a-map-beautiful/4412#4412
> >
>
> - <
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/3087/what-makes-a-map-be-classed-as-badly-designed
> >
>
> Nikos
>
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