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

Stephan Holl holl at gdf-hannover.de
Thu Jun 15 03:04:25 EDT 2006


Hello Hamish, William,

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:34:13 +1200 Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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.

I have updated the page with symbol-examples.

Best
	Stephan



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