[GRASSLIST:9893] Re: ps.map multiple rasters??

[Francesco Mirabella]

Hi Hamish,
thanks for your replay, I will try. In fact r.patch works fine if the
maps are of the same type, otherwise the reconstruction of the color map
can make bad results..

cheers
Francesco

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:07:23PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > > I wonder if there is a way of inserting more than one raster into a
> > > map made with ps.map. This is possible with vectors, is it possible
> > > with rasters?? how??
> ..
> > g.manual ps.map:
> > ...
> > For each ps.map run, only one raster map layer (or set of layers or
> > imagery group; see below) can be requested. ...
> > 
> > r.patch could help
> 
> 
> also you could make a ps.map Encapsulated PostScript output map, then
> place the EPS file(s) within another ps.map container map. Possibly 
> even a (mostly) blank one if say you want 4 maps arranged as so:
> 
> +-------------------+
> |                   |
> |  +-----+ +-----+  |
> |  |     | |     |  |
> |  |     | |     |  |
> |  +-----+ +-----+  |
> |                   |
> |  +-----+ +-----+  |
> |  |     | |     |  |
> |  |     | |     |  |
> |  +-----+ +-----+  |
> |                   |
> |   Map captions..  |
> |                   |
> |                   |
> +-------------------+
> 
> ?
> 
> In the past I have use this to put a sub-set map in a corner showing
> map of the country with a region box around the area of detail in the
> main map. Worked ok but the resulting Postscript file was huge.
> 
> 
> Hamish