[GRASSLIST:8772] Re: Icon on raster

[s99171059 at tuks.co.za]

Thanks a lot Hamish,

It works perfectly.


Kobus

Quoting Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>:

> > I'm using Grass 6 in the development of a cellphone network planning
> > tool.  I would like to plan a network by setting up some cellphone
> > towers, and would like to know if there is some function in Grass
> > which will enable me to place small 'tower'-icons on a raster map at
> > specific geopoints.  I am using r.what to retrieve the location
> where
> > a tower was set up, but would like to display all the towers already
> > set up as well.
> 
> 
> Make the tower possitions as vector points (v.in.ascii) then display
> with "d.vect icon=your/tower". For hard copies you've got a bit more
> control with ps.map, eg you can use a EPS file for the icon and
> dynamically set the size with vpoints sizecol.
> 
> You'll have to make your own tower icon of course, it's not so hard to
> do:
> 
>
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/GrassProgrammingHowto#Display_Symbols
> 
> move the file into $GISBASE/etc/symbol/local/tower or somewhere like
> that.
> 
> 
> It works really well.
> 
> 
> Also check out "d.vect display=attr", v.label and d.paint.labels for
> attaching tags.
> 
> Hamish
>