[GRASSLIST:3956] Re: A question about labeling

[Steve Kimball]

Charles,

I am working on a contract funded by the Army to locate emitters
on various freqencies in a 5 miles area.  We are using GPS at 
3 sensing locations, so we know long/lat positions.  We can get
the longitude/latitude of the emittor, then we need to plot a point
on a map.  The Army like GRASS.  The Army has developed and uses GRASS.
They like standard platforms like Linux.  So where can we get data to
use with
GRASS to display a street map with labels so we can plot in
long/lat coordinates?  The Americal Fact Finder is great.
Can we use ESRI IMS data with GRASS?
Thanks for the help.

Steve Kimball
Signatron Technologies

charles.e.dingman at census.gov wrote:

The American Fact Finder uses ESRI IMS.  For our other maps, we use a
text
placement system (TPS) developed at Rutgers.

Charles Dingman, Geographer/301-457-4307/Rm 425, WP-1
Geography Division, US Census/Washington, DC 20233-7400


> On Tuesday 25 June 2002 12.33pm,  Steve Kimball wrote:
                    
                                                                                    
> On Sunday 24 March 2002 02:29 pm, Ben Logan wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> > My question is regarding the positioning of labels.  Once I have
> > labels attached to a vector map, do I have to position each one
> > manually?  For example, if I am labeling roads with their names and
> > numbers, I want the labels to clearly identify the roads.  It would be
> > good if long names could follow the curvature of the roads.  In tight
> > spots, there might be a leader arrow pointing to a road segment that
> > allows the label to be moved into a more open area.  What I'm talking
> > about is pretty much standard for printed maps, e.g. county maps, or
> > even the online maps available through Yahoo.
> >
> > Does each label have to be manually positioned, or is there a piece of
> > software that can determine the best position for the labels?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
>
> Ben,
> 
> I'm also interested in creating labeled street maps from TIGER data.
> The U.S. Census people can use TIGER data to label a street map.
> Check out their American Fact Finder page
>
> http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ReferenceMapFramesetServlet?_lang=en
> The names are there.  Not to fancy.  No wrapping around curves.
>
> Steve
>