[GRASSLIST:99] Re: Displaying attributes alongside vector data

[Mauro Lacy]

Hamish wrote:

>>What I want to do is to display river names alogside the river(not at
>>the left, center or right of the centroid). Is there a way to do this
>>actually, or I'll have  to hack d.vect to be able to do it with grass?
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>Use v.label -a, -c and d.labels (or ps.map) in GRASS 6.1-cvs.
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Thanks. I'm actually in the process of compiling grass 6.1-cvs.

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>>What about displaying names(or generically, attributes) with a small 
>>(black or white) border around the (freetype) fonts? So they can be 
>>easily distinguished from the background map.
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>For ps.map, use v.label highlight color controls.
>For the normal display monitor just use d.text.freetype in two steps: 
>the second time change the color and make the font size one or two less.
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Ok. I'll try all this with grass61-cvs and report back.

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>>What about displaying (with the "right" colors) islands in lakes? or
>>do I need a Coverage for this, besides inwatera?
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>I don't understand this one. More info?
>d.vect cats=1-99999
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That's it. Thanks again.

Mauro

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