[GRASS-user] Generating symbols or icons for line maps in ps.map

[Hamish]

William Hudspeth wrote:

> I am trying to generate icons or symbols, in this case highway markers,
> for a line map in ps.map. Can anyone describe a work flow to accomplish
> this? I would like to overlay the highway number on top of the actual
> symbol if possible.


see

http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_Programming_Howto#Display_Symbols

(the IconSymbols page is currently down, hopefully back up soon)

v.label and v.lrs.* might also be interesting.

use existing symbols in $GISBASE/etc/symbol/ as an example.



Hamish