[GRASSLIST:79] Re: Geology Maps and Grass

[Paco Alonso]

On Monday 13 March 2006 19:10, you wrote:

Hi:

My experience with GRASS and GMT is very positive. You can export the grass 
raster files to GMT format and add lots of nice cartographic stuff.

I have some notes on the use of GMT and GMT with GRASS in my web site (see 
below) but it is written in spanish (sorry ;-).

By the way, at the moment I have to map vector layers with tricky topology, 
and I think (but I still have not tested) the best option is to use the png 
driver with a proper size and insert the result into the postscript GMT file 
like an image file, any suggestion?

Paco

 

> I agree.
> GMT may be tricky at first, but you can make excellent maps with it.
>
> a good example (I guess this is from Dylan):
>
> http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/102
>
>
> Carlos
>
> On 3/13/06, Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> wrote:
> > Dylan,
> >
> > My thought exactly… Some very stunning graphics can be created with GMT.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 March 2006 03:40 am, RAVI KUMAR wrote:
> > >> One of the Oldest and largest Scientific Departments of India is
> > >> evaluating GRASS GIS. No doubt that it is compared with ARC-INFO.
> > >>
> > >>   We are having difficulty to demonstrate Good Mapcomposition through
> > >>   GRASS.
> > >>
> > >>   1. Geological structural symbols like Foliation / Bedding which are
> > >> taken from a table and represented with the rotation as per table..
> > >> How can we do it, in GRASS or any FOSS software?
> > >>
> > >>   2. Symbol generation for GEOLOGY, what FOSS software to use ?
> > >>
> > >>   3. Preparation of a map with Cartographic elegance, What FOSS to
> > >> Use.
> > >>
> > >>   ThanX in anticipation
> > >
> > > Give the generic mapping tools a try:
> > >
> > > http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
> >
> > --
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> >
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> >
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