[GRASSLIST:8789] Re: Icon on raster

[Hamish]

> > > 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.
..
> Thanks a lot Hamish,
> 
> It works perfectly.

great.

I should add that if you are really proud of your homebrew symbol by all
means share it with the list for others to try &/or for possible
inclusion in future releases in GRASS.


Hamish